Definition of Blunt

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Definition of Blunt

Blunt

Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.

Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute.

Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.

Hard to impress or penetrate.

To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.

To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.

A fencer's foil.

A short needle with a strong point. See Needle.

Money.

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Blunt Quotations

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
Lao Tzu

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
Blaise Pascal

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.
Richard M. Nixon

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
William Wordsworth

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
Alexander Pope

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
Jay London

I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died.
Jimmy Swaggart

Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics.
Simon Travaglia

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
James Thurber

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
Chinua Achebe

Blunt Translations

blunt in Dutch is stomp, bot
blunt in German is abstumpfen, stumpf, stumpf, sehr deutlich
blunt in Italian is spuntato
blunt in Portuguese is sem corte
blunt in Spanish is obtuso, embotado

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