blunt

Plural: blunts

Verb

Verb Forms: blunted, blunting, blunts

• To make less sharp or less effective.
• make less intense
  • "blunted emotions"
• make numb or insensitive
• make dull or blunt
• make less sharp
  • "blunt the knives"
• make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation
  • "Terror blunted her feelings"
• To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
• To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of

Adjective Satellite

• having a broad or rounded end
  • "thick marks made by a blunt pencil"
• used of a knife or other blade; not sharp
  • "a blunt instrument"
• characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion
  • "blunt talking and straight shooting"
  • "a blunt New England farmer"
• devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
  • "the blunt truth"

Adj

• Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
• Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
• Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting in the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
• Hard to impress or penetrate.
• Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.

Noun

• A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
• A short needle with a strong point.
• A marijuana cigar.
• Money.
• A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.

Adjective

• Lacking a sharp edge or point; direct and unsoftened in manner.

Examples

• His BLUNT assessment of my poor Scrabble strategy was harsh, but fair.
• I was taken aback by the blunt admission that he had never liked my company.
• It blunted my appetite.
• My feeling towards her have been blunted.
• The lack of vowels on his rack seemed to BLUNT his ability to form any meaningful words.

Synonyms

benumb, candid, crude, deaden, dull, forthright, frank, free-spoken, numb, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, stark, straight-from-the-shoulder, Bugs Bunny, Camberwell carrot, J, ackers, bees and honey, bifta, bifter, blunt, blunten, bogie, bomber, bone, brass, bread, bread and honey, brusque, bun, cake, cheddar, cheese, ching, clams, coarse, coin, cream, currency, curt, dinero, doink, doinker, doob, doober, doobie, dosh, dough, exotic cheroot, fatty, fedi, feds, finances, flizz, flow, funding, funds, giggle stick, gravy, gwolla, gwop, harsh, hogger, hooter, impolite, jack, jay, jazz cigarette, jimmy, joint, juju, left-handed cigarette, legal tender, lolly, lovely jubbly, mazuma, means, money, moola, mozzarella, muck, muggle, number, obtuse, oof, ooftish, paper, phattie, pointless, reefer, rhino, roach, robust, rude, scratch, scrilla, short, shrapnel, simoleons, smackeroonies, smackeroos, smackers, spend, spiff, spliff, spondulicks, stupid, swag, toke tube, torpedo, uncivil, wampum, wonga, yenom, zol, zoot

Antonyms

enliven, sharpen

Related Words

bluntly, dull, BLUNTLY

Anagrams of blunt