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Blunt   /blənt/   Listen
Blunt

adjective
1.
Having a broad or rounded end.
2.
Used of a knife or other blade; not sharp.
3.
Characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion.  Synonyms: candid, forthright, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder.  "A blunt New England farmer" , "I gave them my candid opinion" , "Forthright criticism" , "A forthright approach to the problem" , "Tell me what you think--and you may just as well be frank" , "It is possible to be outspoken without being rude" , "Plainspoken and to the point" , "A point-blank accusation"
4.
Devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment.  Synonyms: crude, stark.  "The crude facts" , "Facing the stark reality of the deadline"
verb
(past & past part. blunted; pres. part. blunting)
1.
Make less intense.
2.
Make numb or insensitive.  Synonyms: benumb, dull, numb.
3.
Make dull or blunt.  Synonym: dull.
4.
Make less sharp.
5.
Make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation.  Synonym: deaden.  "Deaden a sound"



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"Blunt" Quotes from Famous Books



... SUM. Plough-swains are blunt, and will taunt bitterly. Harvest, when all is done, thou art the man: Thou dost me the best service of them all. Rest from thy labours, till the year renews, And let the ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VIII (4th edition) • Various
... he bid his wife good-by?" Hendricks was blunt, but he deemed it best to speak thus, rather than to encourage ...
— Raspberry Jam • Carolyn Wells
... the earthenware pot, carried it to the table, and spilled its contents upon the well-scrubbed boards. He counted while Anna stood beside him, her fingers clutching his coarse blouse. It was a slow business, because Ivan's big blunt fingers were not used to such work, but it was over at last. He stacked the coins into neat piles, then he straightened himself and turned to the ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... be blunt in discovering my affections, and use little eloquence in levelling out my loves, I appeal for pardon to your own principles, that say, shepherds use few ceremonies, for that they acquaint themselves with few subtleties: ...
— Rosalynde - or, Euphues' Golden Legacy • Thomas Lodge
... of an overwhelming interest. Quang, however, maintained with every manifestation of inspired assurance that Yat Huang was to be commended down to the smallest detail, inasmuch as proficiency in the use of both blunt and sharp-edged weapons, and a faculty for passing undetected through the midst of an encamped body of foemen, fitted a person for the every-day affairs of life above ...
— The Wallet of Kai Lung • Ernest Bramah


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