Meaning of blunt | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
3. To become blunt: When the scraper blade blunts, you will have to replace it.
4. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting in the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
5. to make less sharp. This knife has been blunted by years of use. verstomp ينْثَلِم، يَكِلُّ притъпявам embotar otupit abstumpfen blive sløv στομώνω, αμβλύνωdesafilar, despuntar nüristama کند شدن tylsyä émousser לְהַקהוֹת कुंद पड़ना otupiti (le)tompít menumpulkan sljvga smussare 鈍らせる 무디게 하다 (at)šipinti, (at)bukinti notrulināt tumpul bot makensløve stępić پڅ کیدل embotar a toci затупляться otupiť skrhati otupeti bli slö, bli trubbig ทำให้ทื่อ körleştirmek 把...弄鈍 притуплювати(ся) کند ہونا làm cù...
6. Hard to impress or penetrate.
7. stomperig بِصَراحَه، بِخُشونَه направо francamente neomaleně, bez obalu grob sløvt; ligefremt; kontant χωρίς περιστροφές, ωμάabruptamente, bruscamente keerutamata رک و راست suorasukaisesti sans ménagements בגלוי बिना किसी बनावट के tupo kereken, nyíltan dengan terang-terangan harkalega bruscamente 鈍く 무디게 tiesiai, tiesmukiškai skarbi; atklāti dengan tumpul botwegrett ut, direkte, utilslørt tępo, bez ogródek رډ او سیخ rudemente fără menajamente тупо; прямо bez obalu brezobzirno tupo trubbigt, bu...
8. Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
9. stompheid صَراحَه، خُشونَه безцеремонност com franqueza neomalenost; tupost die Stumpfheit sløvhed; ligefremhed αμβλύτητα brusquedad, rudeza nüridus, otsekohesus رک و راستی؛ بی پردگی suorasukaisuus brusquerieישירות भोंथरापन, रूखापन tupost életlenség; tompultság; nyerseség keterusterangan bitleysi; hreinskilni; fruntaskapur; skilningsleysi rudezza 鈍さ 무딤 tiesumas atklātums; trulums ketumpulan botheidsløvhet; utilslørthet, bryskhet szczerość بی پردی غږیدل rudeza brutalitate тупость; прямота tupo...
10. despuntado-a; embotado-a;___ injuries → heridas contusas.
11. Having a dull edge or end; not sharp.
12. Abrupt and often disconcertingly frank in speech: "People [in the Western US] are blunt with one another, sometimes even cruel, believing honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy" (Gretel Ehrlich). See Synonyms at gruff.
13. Slow to perceive, understand, or feel; dull or insensitive: "I felt blunt with shock when I heard the news" (Sallie Bingham).
14. To dull the edge of (a knife, for example).
15. To make less effective; weaken: blunting the criticism with a smile.

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Examples

“The murderous knife was dull and blunt.”

“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.”

“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. […].”

“His wits are not so blunt.”

“I was taken aback by the blunt admission that he had never liked my company.”

“a plain, blunt man”

“December 30, 1736, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions.”

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