1.
[syn: blunted, dulled]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
blunted \blunted\ adj.
1. made dull or blunt.
Syn: dulled.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. reduced in force or effectiveness.
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Blunt \Blunt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blunted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Blunting.]
1. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to
make blunt. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
2. 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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
blunted
adj 1: made dull or blunt [syn: blunted, dulled]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "blunted":
abrupt, bluff, blunt, blunt-edged, blunt-ended, blunt-pointed,
bluntish, dull, dull-edged, dull-pointed, dulled, dullish,
edgeless, faired, obtuse, pointless, rounded, smoothed, unedged,
unpointed, unsharp, unsharpened