Definition of "blunt" in English

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.

noun

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.

4. (UK, slang, archaic, uncountable) Money.

5. A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.

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.