Sekirov Dictionary

obtuse

UK /əbˈtjuːs/US /əbˈt(j)us/

adjective 7
verb 1
forms 7

adjective7

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Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
- For we see a Feather or a Rush drawn along the Lip or Cheek, doth tickle; whereas a thing more obtuse, or a touch more hard, doth not. — 1670
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Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
- Be you a Remainer or a Leaver, you would have to be particularly obtuse not to see that [Theresa] May's hard Tory Brexit will cost this country and its families more than it can conceivably afford. — 2017
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Larger than one, and smaller than two right angles, equivalently more than 90° and less than 180°.
- If he is standing close beside me I know that our separate axes of vision will meet at an acute angle in the centre of his object, and if we are further apart, at an obtuser angle. — 1922
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Obtuse-angled, having an obtuse angle.
- Unless A lies in that part of a semi-infinite strip bounded by AB outside a semi-circle of diameter AB, the triangle is obtuse, so that the probability of getting an obtuse triangle is equal to 1. — 2013
Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.
Indirect or circuitous.
Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.

verb1

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(no longer used) To dull or reduce an emotion or a physical state.
- Fouler. To tread, stampe, or trample on; to bruise, or crush, by stamping; hurt, or obtuse, by treading on; […] — 1611

forms

obtused · obtusing · obtuses · more obtuse · obtuser · most obtuse · obtusest

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