blunt

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English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Possibly from Old Norse blundra.

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA: /blɐnt/
• (UK, US) IPA: /blʌnt/

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• Rhymes: -ʌnt

Adjective

blunt (comparative blunter, superlative bluntest)

1. Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; not sharp.
2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
3. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
4. Hard to impress or penetrate.
5. 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

blunt instrument

bluntly

bluntness

Translations

Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument

• Arabic: كليل (ar) (kalīl)
• Armenian: բութ (hy) (but') 
• Belarusian: тупы (be) (tupý) 
• Bulgarian: тъп (bg) (tǎp) , притъпен (bg) (pritǎpen)
• Burmese: တုံး (my) (ton:)
• Catalan: rom
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鈍 (cmn), 钝 (cmn) (dùn)

• Czech: tupý (cs) m
• Danish: sløv (da)
• Dutch: stomp (nl), bot (nl)
• Finnish: tylppä (fi), tylsä (fi)
• French: émoussé (fr)
• German: stumpf, abgestumpft
• Japanese: 鈍い (ja) (にぶい, nibui)

• Korean: 무딘 (ko) (mudin)
• Latvian: truls (lv), neass (lv)
• Macedonian: тап (mk) (tap)
• Manx: neuvirragh (gv)
• Polish: tępy (pl)
• Romanian: tocit, neascutit
• Russian: тупой (ru) (tupój) 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: туп (sh)

  Roman: tup (sh)

• Slovak: tupý (sk)
• Slovene: top (sl)
• Spanish: romo (es)
• Swedish: trubbig (sv)
• Ukrainian: тупий (uk) (tupýj) 

Dull in understanding; slow of discernment

• Armenian: բութ (hy) (but') 
• Bulgarian: тъп (bg) (tǎp), глупав (bg) (glupav)
• Danish: sløv (da)
• Finnish: hidasälyinen (fi)
• French: sot (fr), obtus (fr), idiot (fr)

• Italian: ottuso (it) m
• Macedonian: тап (mk) (tap)
• Russian: тупой (ru) (tupój) 
• Spanish: obtuso (es)

Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious

• Bulgarian: рязък (bg) (rjazǎk), безцеремонен (bg) (bezceremonen)
• Finnish: suorasukainen
• French: abrupt (fr)

• German: ungehobelt, unverblümt
• Russian: грубый (ru) (grúbyj) 

Hard to impress or penetrate

• Bulgarian: нечувствителен (bg) (nečuvstvitelen)

• German: abgestumpft

Noun

blunt (plural blunts)

1. A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
2. A short needle with a strong point.
3. (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)
4. (UK, slang, archaic, uncountable) money
   • Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

     Down he goes to the Commons, to see the lawyer and draw the blunt […]

Translations

cigar filled with marijuana

• Finnish: marihuanasavuke (fi), (slang) marisätkä (fi)

• German: Blunt (de) m

Verb

blunt (third-person singular simple present blunts, present participle blunting, simple past and past participle blunted)

1. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
2. (figuratively) To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.
   • 2011 January 12, Saj Chowdhury, “Liverpool 2 - 1 Liverpool”, BBC:

     That settled the Merseysiders for a short while but it did not blunt the home side's spirit.

Translations

To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker

• Bulgarian: притъпявам (bg) (pritǎpjavam)
• Finnish: tylsyttää (fi)
• French: émousser (fr)

• German: abstumpfen
• Macedonian: тапи (mk) (tápi)
• Spanish: embotar (es)

To repress or weaken

• Finnish: latistaa (fi), (colloquial) lässäyttää (fi)
• French: réprimer (fr)

• Spanish: embotar (es)

See also

• bluntly
• dull

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Old French

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *blundaz

Adjective

blunt m (feminine blunde)

1. blonde