obtuse
Pronunciation: /əbˈtjuːs/
The English word “obtuse” has 8 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
- Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.
- Larger than one, and smaller than two right angles, equivalently more than 90° and less than 180°.
- Obtuse-angled, having an obtuse angle.
- Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
- Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.
- Indirect or circuitous.
verb
Etymology
From Middle English obtuse, from Latin obtūsus (“blunt, dull; obtuse”), past participle of obtundere, from obtundō (“to batter, beat, strike; to blunt, dull”), from ob- (“against”) (see ob-) + tundō (“to beat, strike; to bruise, crush, pound”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewd-, from *(s)tew- (“to hit; to push”)). More at obtund.
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