blunt
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
- 2.
Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
- 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.
- 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.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)A short needle with a strong point.
- 3.
(US, countable, slang, uncountable)(smoking, slang, US) A marijuana cigar.
Đồng nghĩa: bifta, bifter, blunt, bogie, bomber, bone, bun, Camberwell carrot, doink, doinker, doob, doober, doobie, exotic cheroot, fatty, giggle stick, hogger, hooter, J, jazz cigarette, jay, jimmy, joint, juju, left-handed cigarette, muggle, number, phattie, reefer, roach, spiff, spliff, toke tube, torpedo, zol, zoot
- 4.
(UK, archaic, slang, uncountable)Money.
Đồng nghĩa: ackers, bees and honey, blunt, bones, brass, bread, bread and honey, Bugs Bunny, cake, cheddar, cheese, ching, clams, coin, cream, currency, dinero, dosh, dough, feds, fedi, finances, flizz, flow, funding, funds, gravy, gwop, gwolla, jack, legal tender, lolly, lovely jubbly, mazuma, means, money, moola, mozzarella, muck, oof, ooftish, paper, rhino, scratch, scrilla, shrapnel, simoleons, smackers, smackeroos, smackeroonies, spend, spondulicks, swag, wampum, wonga, yenom
- 5.
(countable, uncountable)A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
Động từ
verb- 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.
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From Middle English blunt, blont, from Old English *blunt, probably of - origin, possibly related to blunda, related to blind (> blunda, blunda, blunde).