obtuse
obtuse is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; dull; stupid; as, obtuse senses. Milton.
- 2.Dull; deadened; as, obtuse sound. Johnson.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- agent
- anaesthesia
- anaesthetic
- anaesthetize
- benumb
- bluff
- blunt
- bluntness
- callous
- case
- chloral
- chloroform
- coma
- comatose
- dead
- dull
- edentate
- edge
- ether
- exhilarating
- gas
- hard
- hardened
- have
- hemiplegia
- hide
- impercipient
- influence
- insensibility
- insensible
- laughing
- motor
- nitrogen
- nitrous
- numb
- obtund
- obtuseness
- off
- opium
- oxide
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is obtuse.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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