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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (4)

1. of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees;

2. (of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex;

3. lacking in insight or discernment;
- Example: "too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior"
- Example: "a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin"- Jasper Griffin
[syn: obtuse, purblind]

4. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity;
- Example: "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"
- Example: "never met anyone quite so dim"
- Example: "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray
- Example: "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"
- Example: "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"
- Example: "worked with the slow students"
[syn: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Obtuse \Ob*tuse"\ a. [Compar. Obtuser; superl. Obtusest.]
   [L. obtusus, p. p. of obtundere to blunt: cf. F. obtus. See
   Obtund.]
   1. Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles
      greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety
      degrees.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; not alert,
      especially to the feelings of others; dull; stupid; as,
      obtuse senses. --Milton.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. Dull; deadened; as, obtuse sound. --Johnson.
      [1913 Webster] Obtuse-angled


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

obtuse
    adj 1: of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees [ant: acute]
    2: (of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex
    3: lacking in insight or discernment; "too obtuse to grasp the
       implications of his behavior"; "a purblind oligarchy that
       flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the
       dustbin"- Jasper Griffin [syn: obtuse, purblind]
    4: slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so
       dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met
       anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning,
       at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb
       officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either
       normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with
       the slow students" [syn: dense, dim, dull, dumb,
       obtuse, slow]