obtuse
Adjective
- Lacking sharpness of intellect; annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand.
- of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees
Adjective Satellite
- (of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex
- lacking in insight or discernment; ; - Jasper Griffin
- "too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior"
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; ; ; - Thackeray
- "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"
Adj
- Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
- Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
- Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.
- Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
- Larger than one, and smaller than two right angles, or more than 90° and less than 180°.
- Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
- Obtuse-angled, having an obtuse angle.
- Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
- Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.
- Indirect or circuitous.
Verb
- To dull or reduce an emotion or a physical state.
Examples
- He seemed obtuse to the fact that leaving ’S’ tiles open was a bad strategy.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English obtuse, from Latin obtūsus (“blunt, dull; obtuse”), past participle of obtundere, from obtundō (“to batter, beat, strike; to blunt, dull”), from ob- (“against”) (see ob-) + tundō (“to beat, strike; to bruise, crush, pound”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewd-, from *(s)tew- (“to hit; to push”)). More at obtund.
Synonyms
dense, dim, dull, dumb, purblind, slow, blunt, deadened, dim-witted, muffled, obtuse-angled, thick
Antonyms
acute, acute-angled, bright, clear, intelligent, on the ball, pointed, quick off the mark, quick-witted, sharp, smart
Scrabble Score: 8
obtuse: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordobtuse: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
obtuse: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary