Dictionary Entry
obtuse
obtuse is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1superlative
Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees.
- 2superlative
Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; dull; stupid; as, obtuse senses.
- 3superlative
Dull; deadened; as, obtuse sound.
- 4adjective
slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity- Thackeray
"so dense he never understands anything I say to him"
"never met anyone quite so dim"
- 5adjective
lacking in insight or discernment- Jasper Griffin
"too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior"
"a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin"
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- 6adjective
of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees
- 7adjective
(of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex
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