Obtuse can be categorized as an adjective.
Adjective |
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| obtuse - lacking in insight or discernment; "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"- Jasper Griffin | ||
| obtuse - (of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex | ||
| obtuse - slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students" |
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| 1. | adj. | Too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior. | |
| 2. | adj. | He was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse. | |
| 3. | adj. | But Johnson was so obtuse he didn’t understand he had a victory when it was handed to him on a silver platter. | |
| 4. | adj. | When you think about it, it's all Kenny's fault for being so obtuse. | |
| 5. | adj. | Pedants delight in being obtuse. | |
| 6. | adj. | No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, deferential, glad to be of use, politic, cautious, and meticulous; full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; at times, indeed, almost ridiculous— almost, at times, the Fool. | |
| 7. | adj. | She complained of an obtuse pain in her back. | |
| 8. | adj. | When two non-perpendicular straight lines intersect, they form four geometric angles; an acute angle plus either of the adjacent obtuse angles will naturally always sum to 180 degrees. |
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| adj. | |
| Too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior. |
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| He was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse. |
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| But Johnson was so obtuse he didn’t understand he had a victory when it was handed to him on a silver platter. |
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| When you think about it, it's all Kenny's fault for being so obtuse. | |
| Pedants delight in being obtuse. | |
| No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, deferential, glad to be of use, politic, cautious, and meticulous; full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; at times, indeed, almost ridiculous— almost, at times, the Fool. | |
| She complained of an obtuse pain in her back. | |
| When two non-perpendicular straight lines intersect, they form four geometric angles; an acute angle plus either of the adjacent obtuse angles will naturally always sum to 180 degrees. | |