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 Definitions of obtuse  [əbˈtus, -ˈtyus]  

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Definition of 'obtuse' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) obtuse
not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect; insensitive; dull.

2.  obtuse
not sharp, acute, or pointed; blunt.

3.  obtuse
(of a leaf, petal, etc.) rounded at the extremity.

4.  obtuse
indistinctly felt or perceived, as pain or sound.

Etymology:  (1500–10; < L obtūsus blunt; see obtund)

Definition of 'obtuse' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (adj) obtuse
of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees

2. (adj) obtuse
(of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex

3. (adj) obtuse, purblind
lacking in insight or discernment
"too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior"; "a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin"- Jasper Griffin

4. (adj) dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow
slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
"so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"


Definition of 'obtuse' Webster Dictionary 

1.  obtuse
not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees

2.  obtuse
not having acute sensibility or perceptions; dull; stupid; as, obtuse senses

3.  obtuse
dull; deadened; as, obtuse sound


Translation of 'obtuse' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: (of an angle) greater than a right-angle.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: stomp, stoets Arabic flag Arabic: مُنْفَرِج الزاويَه Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: тъп ъгъл
Brazilian flag Brazilian: obtuso Czech flag Czech: tupý German flag German: stumpf
Danish flag Danish: stump Greek flag Greek: αμβλύς (για γωνία) Spanish flag Spanish: obtuso
Estonian flag Estonian: nürinurkne Farsi flag Farsi: منفرجه؛ باز Finnish flag Finnish: tylppäkulmainen
French flag French: obtus Hebrew flag Hebrew: זָווִית קֵהָה Hindi flag Hindi: अधिक
Croatian flag Croatian: tup Hungarian flag Hungarian: tompa Indonesian flag Indonesian: tumpul
Icelandic flag Icelandic: sljór Italian flag Italian: ottuso Japanese flag Japanese: 鈍角の
Korean flag Korean: 둔각의 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: bukas Latvian flag Latvian: plats (leņķis)
Malay flag Malay: cakah Dutch flag Dutch: stomp Norwegian flag Norwegian: stump (vinkel)
Polish flag Polish: rozwarty Persian flag Persian: منفرجه؛ باز Pashto flag Pashto: تر نوى درجى زياته
Portuguese flag Portuguese: obtuso Romanian flag Romanian: obtuz Russian flag Russian: тупой
Slovak flag Slovak: tupý Slovenian flag Slovenian: top Serbian flag Serbian: tup ugao
Swedish flag Swedish: trubbig Thai flag Thai: ซึ่งเป็นมุมป้าน Turkish flag Turkish: geniş açı
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 鈍角的,圓頭的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: тупий Urdu flag Urdu: زاويۂ قائمہ يا منفرجہ سے
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: tù (góc) Chinese flag Chinese: 钝角的,圆头的

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