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Revision as of 00:16, 25 February 2019
See also: Blunt
English
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Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
From Middle English blunt, blont, from Old English *blunt (attested in the derivative Blunta (male personal name) (> English surnames Blunt, Blount)), possibly related to Old Norse blunda (“to doze”) (> Icelandic blunda, Swedish blunda, Danish blunde).
Adjective
blunt (comparative blunter, superlative bluntest)
- Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
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- 1944, Miles Burton, The Three Corpse Trick, chapter 5:
- The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess[1]:
- The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].
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- Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
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- Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
- the blunt admission that he had never liked my company
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- Hard to impress or penetrate.
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- Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
Synonyms
- (having a thick edge or point): dull, pointless, coarse
- (dull in understanding): stupid, obtuse
- (abrupt in address): curt, short, rude, brusque, impolite, uncivil, harsh
Derived terms
Terms derived from blunt
Translations
having a thick edge or point, not sharp
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dull in understanding; slow of discernment
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abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious
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hard to impress or penetrate
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Noun
blunt (plural blunts)
- A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
- A short needle with a strong point.
- (smoking) A marijuana cigar.
- 2005: to make his point, lead rapper B-Real fired up a blunt in front of the cameras and several hundred thousand people and announced, “I'm taking a hit for every one of y'all!” — Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, p. 461)
- (UK, slang, archaic, uncountable) money
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- A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
Translations
cigar filled with marijuana
Etymology 2
From Middle English blunten, blonten, from the adjective (see above).
Verb
blunt (third-person singular simple present blunts, present participle blunting, simple past and past participle blunted)
- To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
- (figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
- It blunted my appetite.
- My feeling towards her have been blunted.
- 2011 January 12, Saj Chowdhury, “Liverpool 2 - 1 Liverpool”, in BBC[2]:
- That settled the Merseysiders for a short while but it did not blunt the home side's spirit.
Synonyms
Translations
to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker
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to repress or weaken
See also
Old French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *blundaz.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
blunt m (oblique and nominative feminine singular blunde)
- (deprecated use of
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- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- English terms with quotations
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Smoking
- British English
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- English verbs
- en:Marijuana
- Old French terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old French terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old French lemmas
- Old French adjectives