Blunt - Wiktionary

See also: Blunt

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:bluntWikipedia

Pronunciation

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• (UK, US) IPA(key): /blʌnt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʌnt

Etymology 1

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From Middle English blunt, blont, from Old English *blunt, probably of North Germanic origin, possibly related to Old Norse blunda (“to doze”) (> Icelandic blunda, Swedish blunda, Danish blunde).

Adjective

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blunt (comparative blunter, superlative bluntest)

1. Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
   • c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:The murderous knife was dull and blunt.
   • 1944, Miles Burton, The Three Corpse Trick, chapter 5:The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].
2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:His wits are not so blunt.
3. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting in the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech. I was taken aback by the blunt admission that he had never liked my company.
   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:a plain, blunt man
4. Hard to impress or penetrate.
   • December 30, 1736, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions.
5. Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.

Synonyms

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• (having a thick edge or point): dull, pointless, coarse
• (dull in understanding): stupid, obtuse
• (abrupt in address): curt, short, rude, brusque, impolite, uncivil, harsh, robust

Derived terms

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• bluntable
• blunten
• blunt instrument
• bluntish
• bluntly
• bluntness
• bluntnose
• blunt-nosed viper
• bluntslide
• blunt-witted
• semiblunt

Translations

[edit] having a thick edge or point, not sharp — see also dull

Aklanon: dumpoe Arabic: كَلِيل (kalīl) Armenian: բութ (hy) (butʻ) Bashkir: үтмәҫ (ütməś), тупаҫ (tupaś), тупаҡ (tupaq) Basque: kamuts Belarusian: тупы́ (tupý) Bhojpuri: कुंद (kund) Bulgarian: тъп (bg) (tǎp), притъпен (bg) (pritǎpen) Burmese: တုံး (my) (tum:) Catalan: rom (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 鈍 / 钝 (zh) (dùn) Czech: tupý (cs) m Danish: sløv Dutch: stomp (nl), bot (nl) Esperanto: malakra Estonian: nüri (et) Finnish: tylppä (fi), tylsä (fi) French: émoussé (fr) Galician: moucho (gl), obtuso (gl), mouco (gl) Georgian: ბლაგვი (ka) (blagvi) German: stumpf (de), abgestumpft (de) Greek: αμβλύς (el) (amvlýs) Ancient: ἀμβλύς (amblús), κωφός (kōphós) Hebrew: קֵהֶה (he) m (qehé) Hindi: कुंद (hi) (kund) Hungarian: tompa (hu), életlen (hu) Icelandic: sljór (is) Indonesian: tumpul (id), majal (id) Ingrian: tyltsä, nyrhi, tylppä Italian: spuntato (it) Japanese: 鈍い (ja) (にぶい, nibui) Khmer: រឹល (km) (rɨl) Korean: 무딘 (ko) (mudin) Kyrgyz: мокок (ky) (mokok) Latin: obtusus, hebes, retusus Latvian: truls, neass Lithuanian: bukas Macedonian: тап (tap) Malay: tumpul (ms) Manx: neuvirragh, angheyre Maori: kotehe, pūnuki, hāpūpū, pūhoi, nguture, pūnguru, pūhuki, kuruhuki, tūnguru, kiporo Mongolian: мохоо (mn) (moxoo) Norwegian: Bokmål: stump (no) Nynorsk: stump Occitan: mos Ottoman Turkish: كور (kör) Persian: کند (fa) (kond) Polish: tępy (pl) Portuguese: cego (pt), rombo (pt), obtuso (pt) Romanian: tocit (ro), neascutit, bont (ro) Russian: тупо́й (ru) (tupój) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: туп Roman: tup (sh) Sicilian: tunnu (scn) Slovak: tupý Slovene: top (sl) Southern Altai: томтык (tomtïk), моко (moko), ӧтпӧс (ötpös) Spanish: romo (es), obtuso (es), desafilado (es), despuntado (es), contundente (es), tundente, pompo, boto (es), botoso Swedish: trubbig (sv) Tamil: மழுங்கிய (ta) (maḻuṅkiya), மொக்கையான (mokkaiyāṉa) Tausug: tumpul Thai: ทู่ (th) (tûu), ทื่อ (th) (tʉ̂ʉ) Turkish: küt (tr) Ukrainian: тупи́й (tupýj) Vietnamese: cùn (vi) Welsh: pŵl (cy), di-awch Zazaki: xırt

dull in understanding; slow of discernment

Armenian: բութ (hy) (butʻ) Bulgarian: тъп (bg) (tǎp), глупав (bg) (glupav) Danish: sløv Finnish: hidasälyinen (fi) French: sot (fr), obtus (fr), idiot (fr) Galician: mouco (gl), obtuso (gl) German: stumpf (de), träge (de) Greek: αμβλύς (el) (amvlýs) Italian: ottuso (it) m Korean: 무딘 (ko) (mudin) Macedonian: тап (tap) Mongolian: мохоо (mn) (moxoo) Persian: کند (fa) (kond) Portuguese: obtuso (pt) Russian: тупо́й (ru) (tupój) Spanish: obtuso (es), boto (es), botoso Tamil: மந்தம் (ta) (mantam) Thai: ทื่อ (th) (tʉ̂ʉ)

abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: рязък (bg) (rjazǎk), безцеремонен (bg) (bezceremonen) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: otsekohene Finnish: suorasukainen (fi) French: abrupt (fr) Galician: ríspeto, brusco (gl) German: ungehobelt (de), unverblümt (de) Hindi: मुँहफट (hi) (mũhphaṭ) Japanese: ストレート (ja) (sutorēto) Macedonian: груб (grub), на́гол (nágol), о́тсечен (ótsečen), о́стар (óstar) Polish: bezceremonialny (pl) Portuguese: brusco (pt) Russian: гру́бый (ru) (grúbyj) Sicilian: schittu, francu Spanish: brusco (es), franco (es), directo (es), terminante Tamil: அப்பட்டம் (ta) (appaṭṭam), அப்பட்டமான (appaṭṭamāṉa) Thai: ทื่อ (th) (tʉ̂ʉ) Welsh: di-flewyn-ar-dafod (cy), plaen (cy), diseremoni

hard to impress or penetrate

Bulgarian: нечувствителен (bg) (nečuvstvitelen) German: abgestumpft (de) Italian: spuntato (it) Portuguese: obtuso (pt)

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Woiwurrung: (please verify) warrup

Noun

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blunt (countable and uncountable, plural blunts)

1. A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
2. A short needle with a strong point.
3. (smoking, slang, US) A marijuana cigar. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana cigarette
   • 2004, Martin Torgoff, “The Temple of Accumulated Error”, in Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 461:[…] to make his point, lead rapper B-Real fired up a blunt in front of the cameras and several hundred thousand people and announced, “I'm taking a hit for every one of y'all!”
4. (UK, slang, archaic, uncountable) Money. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:money
   • 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 10, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:Down he goes to the Commons, to see the lawyer and draw the blunt[…]
5. A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.

Translations

[edit] fencer's practice foil short needle with a strong point

Finnish: tylppä neula Tamil: (please verify) மழுங்கிய ஊசி (maḻuṅkiya ūci)

cigar filled with marijuana

Catalan: porro (ca) m, peta (ca) m Finnish: bluntti (fi) French: blunt (fr) m Galician: peta f German: Blunt (de) m Polish: blant (pl) m Portuguese: beque (pt) m Russian: кося́к (ru) (kosják) (slang) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: бу̏ксна Roman: bȕksna Spanish: porro (es) m, filin m, blon m Swedish: joint (sv) c, jolle (sv) c, joppe (sv) c Tamil: சுருட்டு (ta) (curuṭṭu)

Etymology 2

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From Middle English blunten, blonten, from the adjective (see above).

Verb

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blunt (third-person singular simple present blunts, present participle blunting, simple past and past participle blunted)

1. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
2. (figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of It blunted my appetite. My feeling towards her have been blunted.
   • 2011 January 12, Saj Chowdhury, “Liverpool 2 - 1 Liverpool”, in BBC‎[1]:That settled the Merseysiders for a short while but it did not blunt the home side's spirit.
   • 2022 August 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail strikes deadlock”, in RAIL, number 964, page 3:I'm not saying that thousands of folk are not being inconvenienced, because they most certainly are, but the impact of strikes on government has been blunted.

Synonyms

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• blunten

Translations

[edit] to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker

Bulgarian: притъпявам (bg) (pritǎpjavam) Finnish: tylsyttää French: émousser (fr) German: abstumpfen (de) Greek: αμβλύνω (el) (amvlýno) Ancient: ἀμβλύνω (amblúnō) Italian: smussare (it), spuntare (it) Khiamniungan Naga: tāi Macedonian: та́пи (tápi) Maori: tiwhatiwha, whakapūhuki, whakahāpūpū, whakapūhoi Portuguese: cegar (pt) Spanish: embotar (es), despuntar (es), desafilar (es), enromar (es) Swedish: trubba (sv) Tamil: மழுங்கடி (ta) (maḻuṅkaṭi), முழுக்கு (ta) (muḻukku), கூர்கெடு (kūrkeṭu) Welsh: pylu (cy)

to repress or weaken

Dutch: afzwakken (nl) Finnish: latistaa (fi), (colloquial) lässäyttää French: réprimer (fr) Greek: αμβλύνω (el) (amvlýno) Ancient: ἀμβλύνω (amblúnō) Portuguese: reprimir (pt) Spanish: embotar (es) Tamil: மழுங்கடி (ta) (maḻuṅkaṭi)

See also

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• bluntly
• dull

Further reading

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• “blunt”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “blunt”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “blunt”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “blunt”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

Old French

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Etymology

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From Frankish *blund, from Proto-Germanic *blundaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /blunt/

Adjective

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blunt m (oblique and nominative feminine singular blunde)

1. alternative form of blont

Polish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English blunt.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˈblant/
• Rhymes: -ant
• Syllabification: blunt

Noun

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blunt m animal

1. (slang) alternative spelling of blant

Declension

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singular	plural
nominative	blunt	blunty
genitive	blunta	bluntów
dative	bluntowi	bluntom
accusative	blunta	blunty
instrumental	bluntem	bluntami
locative	bluncie	bluntach
vocative	bluncie	blunty

Further reading

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• blunt in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• blunt in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English blunt.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˈblant/ [ˈblãn̪t̪]
• Rhymes: -ant

Noun

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blunt m (plural blunts)

1. blunt (a marijuana cigar)

Usage notes

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According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.