BLUNT | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of blunt in English bluntadjective uk /blʌnt/ us /blʌnt/

blunt adjective (NOT SHARP)

Add to word list Add to word list C2 A blunt pencil, knife, etc. is not sharp and therefore not able to write, cut, etc. well. Sharp and blunt

• among
• angularity
• edgeless
• hone
• jag
• keen
• point
• pointed
• prickly
• sharp
• sharpen
• sharply
• sharpness
• spike
• spiked
• spikily
• spiky
• spiny
• strop
• whet

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blunt adjective (RUDE)

C2 saying what you think without trying to be polite or considering other people's feelings: I'll be blunt - that last piece of work you did was terrible. Blunt and direct in speech & behaviour

• abruptly
• abruptness
• bald
• baldly
• baldness
• blisteringly
• bluff
• curt
• directness
• downrightly
• edgelord
• flat out phrase
• forthright
• outspokenly
• plain speaking
• plain-spoken
• plainness
• point-blank
• suffer
• vocal

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Related word

bluntness bluntverb [ T ] uk /blʌnt/ us /blʌnt/ to make something less sharp to make a feeling less strong: My recent bad experience has blunted my enthusiasm for travel. Sharp and blunt

• among
• angularity
• edgeless
• hone
• jag
• keen
• point
• pointed
• prickly
• sharp
• sharpen
• sharply
• sharpness
• spike
• spiked
• spikily
• spiky
• spiny
• strop
• whet

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Becoming and making less strong bluntnoun [ C ] uk /blʌnt/ us /blʌnt/ slang a large cigarette or cigar containing the drug cannabis

• Kids are coming across blunts, pills, other illegal drugs and booze in their classrooms, lockers, bathrooms and playfields.
• Smoking blunts is becoming a common practice with teenagers.
• They would just sit for hours at a time, smoke as many blunts as their system could handle.
• Officers observed two partially smoked marijuana blunts in the room.
• "I tell students that joints, cigars and blunts have seven times more tar than cigarettes," he said.

Specific types of drug

• acaricide
• alprazolam
• amnesiac
• anaphrodisiac
• angel dust
• dissociative
• DMT
• E, e
• ecstasy
• gamma hydroxybutyrate
• ganja
• gas and air
• heroin
• opium
• skunk
• skunkweed
• speedball
• spice
• SSRI
• visionary

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blunt | American Dictionary

bluntadjective us /blʌnt/

blunt adjective (DIRECT IN SPEECH)

Add to word list Add to word list saying what you think without trying to be polite or caring about other people’s feelings: blunt criticism Blunt and outspoken, he often quarreled with fellow officials.

blunt adjective (NOT SHARP)

[ -er/-est only ] not having a sharp edge or point: Use a blunt instrument to smash the ginger and onion into the garlic.

bluntly

adverb us /ˈblʌnt·li/ He is, to put it bluntly, a big bore. bluntverb [ T ] us /blʌnt/

blunt verb [T] (MAKE LESS STRONG)

to make something less strongly felt: Eating between meals will blunt your appetite. (Definition of blunt from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of blunt

blunt Our model describes the normal impact of a blunt body on a shallow layer of liquid of uniform initial thickness. From the Cambridge English Corpus The literature is full of unproven claims about what is a good feature - and equally blunt statements to the opposite. From the Cambridge English Corpus The egg suspension was administered orally to mice by using a syringe fitted with a blunt needle. From the Cambridge English Corpus Clinical diagnosis is confirmed through microscopic visualization of the mite, which may be extracted from a burrow with a blunt needle. From the Cambridge English Corpus Two considerations may help to blunt any such criticism even if they do not remove all legitimate concern. From the Cambridge English Corpus Dynamically speaking, one expects for v1 = 0.6 less concentration of vorticity around the blunt tips. From the Cambridge English Corpus To be blunt about it, lawyers are emotionally erratic and singularly ill-trained to adjudicate the nuances of friendship or the affective intensities between friends. From the Cambridge English Corpus The seemingly endless multiplication of voices crying for aid tends to blunt the compassion of an increasingly indifferent and cynical public in the developed world. From the Cambridge English Corpus We cannot fully exclude the possibility that the tendency to blunted cortisol responses in the patient group has been influenced by benzodiazepine use. From the Cambridge English Corpus Close examination of cranial squama and major joint surfaces turned up no evidence of blunt-force trauma or cut marks. From the Cambridge English Corpus The author wields the blunt instruments of ' ' political transaction costs ' ' and ' ' induced ideological change ' ' at frequent intervals, inflicting substantial transaction costs on the reader. From the Cambridge English Corpus As seen in flow field photographs, a thermal has a mushroom-like appearance, with a blunted nearly hemispherical cap. From the Cambridge English Corpus The mesosome has a slender, smooth, blunt-tipped, long projection and a short pointed one (fig. 13, b). From the Cambridge English Corpus Further, consider the flow about a blunt-nosed slender body in high-speed flight (figure 2). From the Cambridge English Corpus Chaotic or unpredictable schedules might be one factor contributing to the blunted daytime pattern noted for some populations of children. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of blunt These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of blunt?

Translations of blunt

in Chinese (Traditional) 不鋒利的, （鉛筆、刀等）鈍的，不鋒利的, 粗魯的… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 不锋利的, （铅笔、刀等）钝的，不锋利的, 粗鲁的… See more in Spanish desafilado, directo, brusco… See more in Portuguese sem corte, cego, brusco… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian ब्लन्ट, धार नसलेले -पेन्सिल, सूरी इत्यादि ज्याला धार नाहीये त्यामुळे नीट लिहिता… See more 鈍い, 切れ味の悪い, 単刀直入の… See more kör, keskin olmayan, pervasız… See more émoussé/-ée, abrupt/abrupte, émoussé… See more esmussat, sense pèls a la llengua… See more bot, bot maken… See more மழுங்கிய பென்சில், கத்தி போன்றவை. கூர்மையாக இல்லாததால் நன்றாக எழுதவோ, வெட்டவோ முடியாது.… See more (पेंसिल, चाकू आदि) भोथरा, कुंद… See more બૂઠું, આખાબોલું, સ્પષ્ટ બોલવું… See more sløv, ligefrem, kontant… See more slö, trubbig, burdus… See more tumpul, lancang mulut… See more stumpf, offen, abstumpfen… See more uskarp, sløv, brysk… See more کُند, بغیر نوک یادھار کے, صاف گو… See more тупий, грубувато-прямий, притуплювати(ся)… See more మొద్దు, నిర్మొహమాటంగా… See more ভোঁতা, কাঠখোট্টা… See more tupý, neomalený, otupit… See more tumpul, terang-terangan, menumpulkan… See more ทื่อ, (พูด) ตรง ๆ, ทำให้ทื่อ… See more cùn, thẳng thừng, làm cùn… See more tępy, bezceremonialny, bez ogródek… See more 뭉툭한, 직설적인… See more spuntato, brusco, secco… See more Need a translator?

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  • Adjective 
    • blunt (NOT SHARP)
    • blunt (RUDE)
  VerbNoun
• American   
  • Adjective 
    • blunt (DIRECT IN SPEECH)
    • blunt (NOT SHARP)
  • Adverb 
    • bluntly
  • Verb 
    • blunt (MAKE LESS STRONG)
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