Word Meanings - BLUNT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp. The murderous knife was dull and blunt. Shak. 2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute. His wits are not so blunt. Shak. 3. Abrupt in address;

Additional info about word: BLUNT

1. Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp. The murderous knife was dull and blunt. Shak. 2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute. His wits are not so blunt. Shak. 3. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech. "Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behavior." "A plain, blunt man." Shak. 4. Hard to impress or penetrate. 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. Syn. -- Obtuse; dull; pointless; curt; short; coarse; rude; brusque; impolite; uncivil.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BLUNT)

• Abrupt
• Sudden
• steep
• precipitous
• craggy
• coarse
• curt
• blunt
• violent
• harsh
• unceremonious
• rugged
• rough
• Bluff
• Bare
• open
• bold
• abrupt
• frank
• plain-spoken
• surly
• rude
• blustering
• swaggering
• brusque
• hectoring
• discourteous
• bullying
• Damp
• dishearten
• quench
• slack
• moderate
• humid
• wet
• moist
• discourage
• discountenance
• repress
• Deaden
• Benumb
• paralyze
• damp
• subdue
• Gruff
• Rough
• bearish

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BLUNT)

• Air
• dry
• ventilate
• fan
• sun
• aridity
• exsiccate

Related words: (words related to BLUNT)

• ROUGHING-IN
  The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it.
• FRANKALMOIGNE
  A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given to them and their successors forever, usually on condition of praying for the soul of the donor and his heirs; -- called also tenure by free alms. Burrill.
• ROUGHT
  imp. of Reach.
• ROUGHHEWN
  1. Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished. 2. Of coarse manners; rude; uncultivated; rough-grained. "A roughhewn seaman." Bacon.
• FRANKFORT BLACK
  . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
• ARIDITY
  1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.
• ROUGHLEG
  Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough- legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard. Note: The best known species is Archibuteo lagopus of Northern Europe,
• BLUFF-HEADED
  Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.
• HECTORISM
  The disposition or the practice of a hector; a bullying.
• ROUGHINGS
  Rowen.
• VENTILATE
  brandish in the air, to fan, to winnow, from ventus wind; akin to E. 1. To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a
• ROUGHSHOD
  Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse. To ride roughshod, to pursue a course regardless of the pain or distress it may cause others.
• COARSE
  was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
• STEEP
  Bright; glittering; fiery. His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer.
• BLUFFNESS
  The quality or state of being bluff.
• DISHEARTENMENT
  Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
• PARALYZE
  1. To affect or strike with paralysis or palsy. 2. Fig.: To unnerve; to destroy or impair the energy of; to render ineffective; as, the occurrence paralyzed the community; despondency paralyzed his efforts.
• REPRESSIBLE
  Capable of being repressed.
• BENUMBED
  Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind. -- Be*numbed"ness, n.
• BLUNTISH
  Somewhat blunt. -- Blunt"ish*ness, n.
• DRUGGET
  perh, the same word as drogue drug, but cf. also W. drwg evil, bad, A coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets. By extension, any material used for the same purpose.
• DRUGGER
  A druggist. Burton.
• TRUGGING-HOUSE
  A brothel. Robert Greene.
• FORSLACK
  To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser.
• HIGH-WROUGHT
  1. Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. Pope. 2. Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. "A high-wrought flood." Shak.
• THOROUGHWORT
  See BONESET