Obtuse
WordNet

adjective


(1)   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"
(2)   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
(3)   Of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees
(4)   Of a leaf shape; rounded at the apex
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Adjective


  1. Blunt; not sharp.
  2. Of an angle: greater than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees.
  3. Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
  4. Indirect or circuitous.
  5. Of sound: deadened or muffled.
  6. Of a triangle: with one obtuse angle.

Synonyms

  • (intellectually dull): dense, dim, dim-witted, thick (informal)
  • (of a sound): deadened, muffled
  • (blunt): blunt, dull
  • (of a triangle): obtuse-angled

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