The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Blunt \Blunt\ (bl[u^]nt), a. [Cf. Prov. G. bludde a dull or
   blunt knife, Dan. blunde to sleep, Sw. & Icel. blunda; or
   perh. akin to E. blind.]
   1. Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not
      sharp.
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            The murderous knife was dull and blunt. --Shak.
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   2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; --
      opposed to acute.
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            His wits are not so blunt.            --Shak.
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   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.
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   4. Hard to impress or penetrate. [R.]
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            I find my heart hardened and blunt to new
            impressions.                          --Pope.
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   Note: Blunt is much used in composition, as blunt-edged,
         blunt-sighted, blunt-spoken.
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   Syn: Obtuse; dull; pointless; curt; short; coarse; rude;
        brusque; impolite; uncivil.
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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.
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   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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Blunt \Blunt\, n.
   1. A fencer's foil. [Obs.]
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   2. A short needle with a strong point. See Needle.
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   3. Money. [Cant] --Beaconsfield.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

blunt
    adj 1: having a broad or rounded end; "thick marks made by a
           blunt pencil"
    2: used of a knife or other blade; not sharp; "a blunt
       instrument"
    3: characterized by directness in manner or speech; without
       subtlety or evasion; "blunt talking and straight shooting";
       "a blunt New England farmer"; "I gave them my candid
       opinion"; "forthright criticism"; "a forthright approach to
       the problem"; "tell me what you think--and you may just as
       well be frank"; "it is possible to be outspoken without being
       rude"; "plainspoken and to the point"; "a point-blank
       accusation" [syn: blunt, candid, forthright, frank,
       free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank,
       straight-from-the-shoulder]
    4: devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the
       blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of
       the deadline" [syn: blunt, crude(a), stark(a)]
    v 1: make less intense; "blunted emotions"
    2: make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" [syn:
       numb, benumb, blunt, dull]
    3: make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"
       [syn: dull, blunt] [ant: sharpen]
    4: make less sharp; "blunt the knives"
    5: make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor,
       force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings";
       "deaden a sound" [syn: deaden, blunt] [ant: animate,
       enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

308 Moby Thesaurus words for "blunt":
   KO, abate, abrupt, affectless, aggressive, allay, alleviate,
   anesthetize, anesthetized, arctic, artless, assuage, attemper,
   attenuate, autistic, bank the fire, bate, bearish, beastly, bedaze,
   benumb, besot, bluff, blunt-edged, blunt-ended, blunt-pointed,
   blunt-witted, blunted, bluntish, blur, born yesterday, brash,
   brass, bread, brief, broad, brusque, cabbage, candid, catatonic,
   cavalier, chasten, childlike, chill, chilly, chips, chloroform,
   churlish, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldcock,
   coldhearted, confiding, constrain, control, cool, cramp, cripple,
   crusty, curt, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, debilitate,
   deflect, desensitize, deter, devitalize, dim, dim-witted, diminish,
   dinero, direct, disable, disaffect, discourage, discourteous,
   disedge, disincline, disinterest, dispassionate, distract, divert,
   do-re-mi, dope, dopey, downplay, downright, draw the teeth, drug,
   drugged, dull, dull of mind, dull-edged, dull-headed, dull-pated,
   dull-pointed, dull-witted, dulled, dullish, edgeless, efface,
   emotionally dead, emotionless, enervate, enfeeble, etherize,
   eviscerate, exhaust, explicit, extenuate, faired, fat-witted,
   forthright, frank, frankhearted, free, free hand, free-acting,
   free-going, free-moving, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued,
   freehanded, freeze, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, genuine,
   gross-headed, gruel, gruff, guileless, harsh, heart-to-heart,
   heartless, heavy, hebetate, hebetudinous, icy, immovable,
   impassible, impassive, impolite, inconsiderate, indelicate,
   indispose, inexcitable, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, insensitive,
   insusceptible, jack, kayo, keep within bounds, knock out,
   knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lay, lay low,
   lay out, lenify, lessen, lighten, mitigate, moderate, modulate,
   mollify, mull, naive, narcotize, nonemotional, numb, objective,
   obscure, obtund, obtuse, open, openhearted, out of touch,
   outspoken, palliate, palsy, paralyze, passionless, plain,
   plain-spoken, play down, pointless, put off, put to sleep, quench,
   rattle, reduce, reduce the temperature, repel, repress, restrain,
   retund, rough, round, rounded, rude, sap, self-absorbed, severe,
   shake, shake up, sharp, short, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded,
   sincere, single-hearted, single-minded, slacken, slow, slow down,
   slow-witted, sluggish, smoothed, smother, snippety, snippy, sober,
   sober down, soften, soften up, soothe, soulless, spiritless,
   stifle, straight, straight-out, straightforward, stun, stupefy,
   subdue, suppress, surly, tame, temper, thick-brained, thick-headed,
   thick-pated, thick-witted, thickskulled, thoughtless, tone down,
   transparent, truculent, trustful, trusting, tune down, turn,
   turn aside, turn away, turn from, turn off, unaffectionate,
   unbrace, unceremonious, unchecked, uncivil, uncomplicated,
   uncompromising, unconstrained, undermine, underplay, undiplomatic,
   unedged, unemotional, unequivocal, unfeeling, ungracious,
   unguarded, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving, unman,
   unnerve, unpassionate, unpointed, unreserved, unresponding,
   unresponsive, unrestrained, unsharp, unsharpened, unsophisticated,
   unstrengthen, unstring, unsusceptible, unsuspicious, unsympathetic,
   untouchable, unwary, weaken, wean from, wooden, worn



U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):

Blunt, SD -- U.S. city in South Dakota
   Population (2000):    370
   Housing Units (2000): 178
   Land area (2000):     0.491587 sq. miles (1.273204 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.491587 sq. miles (1.273204 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            06180
   Located within:       South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
   Location:             44.516505 N, 99.988340 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     57522
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Blunt, SD
    Blunt