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blunt

English

  1. 🔊 devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
    “the blunt truth”
  2. 🔊 characterized by directness in manner or speech
    “blunt talking and straight shooting”
  3. 🔊 used of a knife or other blade
    “a blunt instrument”
  4. 🔊 having a broad or rounded end
    “thick marks made by a blunt pencil”
  5. 🔊 make less sharp
    “blunt the knives”
  6. 🔊 make less intense
    “blunted emotions”
  7. 🔊 make less lively, intense, or vigorous
    “Terror blunted her feelings”
  8. 🔊 make dull or blunt
    “Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge”
  9. 🔊 make numb or insensitive
    “The shock numbed her senses”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 boto blunt
  2. 🔊 contundente blunt
  3. 🔊 pocho blunt
  4. 🔊 ñato blunt
  5. 🔊 despuntar to blunt
  6. 🔊 embotar to blunt
  7. 🔊 romo blunt, dull
  8. 🔊 directo blunt, straight
  9. 🔊 pompo blunt, worn down
  10. 🔊 desmochar to blunt, make blunt

Similar words

deaden dull numb benumb dull crude(a) stark(a) candid forthright frank free-spoken outspoken plainspoken point-blank straight-from-the-shoulder ko abate abrupt affectless aggressive allay alleviate anesthetize anesthetized