blunt

blunt has 18 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• a.. Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.
• a.. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute.
• a.. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
• a.. Hard to impress or penetrate.
• v. t.. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
• v. t.. To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.
• n.. A fencer's foil.
• n.. A short needle with a strong point. See Needle.
• n.. Money.
• v.. make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound"
• v.. make less sharp; "blunt the knives"
• v.. make less intense; "blunted emotions"