What is hard to impress or penetrate. [R.] I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions. Pope. Note: Blunt is much used in composition, as blunt-edged, blunt- sighted, blunt-spoken called?
blunt — Hard to impress or penetrate. [R.] I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions. Pope. Note: Blunt is much used in composition, as blunt-edged, blunt- sighted, blunt-spoken. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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