blunt
English
/blʌnt/
adj
Definitions
- Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
- Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
- Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
- Hard to impress or penetrate.
- Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English blunt derived from Old English *blunt.
Origin
Old English
*blunt
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- blunt-witted English
- bluntable English
- blunten English
- blunteth English
- bluntish English
- bluntishness English
- bluntly English
- bluntness English
- bluntnose English
- bluntslide English
- nose English
- slide English
- witted English
- blunda Swedish
- *blunt Old English
- blonder Middle English
- blunden Middle English
- blunt Middle English
- bluntnes Middle English
- blunda Old Norse
- blunda Icelandic
- blundur Icelandic