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What (who) is OBTUSE - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Obtuse (disambiguation); Obtuce
obtuse
1.
Someone who is obtuse has difficulty understanding things, or makes no effort to understand them. (FORMAL)
I've really been very obtuse and stupid...
ADJ
• obtuseness
Naivety bordering on obtuseness helped sustain his faith.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
ADJ
Obtuse
·superl Dull; deadened; as, obtuse sound.
II. Obtuse ·superl Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; dull; stupid; as, obtuse senses.
III. Obtuse ·superl Not pointed or acute; blunt;
- applied ·esp. to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees.
obtuse
¦ adjective
1. annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand.
2. (of an angle) more than 90° and less than 180°.
3. not sharp-pointed or sharp-edged; blunt.
Derivatives
obtusely adverb
obtuseness noun
obtusity noun
Origin
ME: from L. obtusus, obtundere, from ob- 'against' + tundere 'to beat'.
Wikipedia
Obtuse
Obtuse may refer to:
- Obtuse angle, an angle of between 90 and 180 degrees
- Obtuse triangle, a triangle with an internal angle of between 90 and 180 degrees
- Obtuse leaf shape
- Obtuse tepal shape
- Obtuse barracuda, a ray-finned fish
- Obtuse, a neighborhood in Brookfield, Connecticut
Examples of use of OBTUSE
1. And yet Foxman has also shown himself to be both morally obtuse and ethically challenged.
2. It‘s too obtuse, the language too rarefied, and the metaphors too far out, they complain.
3. A member of the transporters‘ action committee said: "Treasury officials are obtuse and impervious.
4. The captions on the site are often deliberately obtuse, playful or simply untrue.
5. Maureen Dowd of the New York Times claims that Sheehan‘s "moral authority" on the war is "absolute." This is obtuse.