stumpf
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See also: Stumpf
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German stumpf, from late Old High German stumph, from the root of Stumpf (“stump, stub”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]stumpf (strong nominative masculine singular stumpfer, comparative stumpfer, superlative am stumpfsten or am stumpfesten)
- dull, blunt
- flat (as opposed to pointy)
- 1903, Fanny zu Reventlow, Ellen Olestjerne, in Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow: Gesammelte Werke, Albert Langen, page 551:
- Vor ihnen lag das Dorf mit seinen Strohdächern und dem niedrigen, stumpfen Kirchturm.
- In front of them was the village with its thatched roofs and the small, flat church steeple.
- 1903, Fanny zu Reventlow, Ellen Olestjerne, in Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow: Gesammelte Werke, Albert Langen, page 551:
- (mathematics) obtuse
- (colloquial, figurative, derogatory) boring, dull, formulaic, dumb
- 2023 May 23, Arabella Wintermayr, “Neuer Vampirfilm mit Nicolas Cage: Stell dich deinem Dämon”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz[1], →ISSN:
- Leider weiß „Renfield“ weder das Potenzial des vielversprechenden Ausgangspunkts noch sein überzeugendes Casting richtig auszuschöpfen und verliert sich bald in einem stumpfen Krimiplot.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2023, “Suchen/Finden”, in Apokalypse Wow, performed by Frittenbude:
- Gib mir einen roten Faden, nach dem ich greifen kann / Und stumpfe Parol'n, die ich begreifen kann
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “stumpf”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
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