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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English blunt, blont, from Old English *blunt (attested in the derivative Blunta (male personal name) (> English surnames Blunt, Blount)), probably of North Germanic origin, possibly related to Old Norse blunda (“to doze”) (> Icelandic blunda, Swedish blunda, Danish blunde).
Adjective
blunt (comparative blunter, superlative bluntest)
- Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :The murderous knife was dull and blunt.
1944, Miles Burton, The Three Corpse Trick, chapter 5:The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
- Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :His wits are not so blunt.
- Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
I was taken aback by the blunt admission that he had never liked my company.
1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :a plain, blunt man
- Hard to impress or penetrate.
- Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
having a thick edge or point, not sharp
- Aklanon: dumpoe
- Arabic: كَلِيل (kalīl)
- Armenian: բութ (hy) (butʻ)
- Bashkir: үтмәҫ (ütməś), тупаҫ (tupaś), тупаҡ (tupaq)
- Basque: kamuts
- Belarusian: тупы́ (tupý)
- Bhojpuri: कुंद (kund)
- Bulgarian: тъп (bg) (tǎp), притъпен (bg) (pritǎpen)
- Burmese: တုံး (my) (tum:)
- Catalan: rom (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 鈍/钝 (zh) (dùn)
- Czech: tupý (cs) m
- Danish: sløv
- Dutch: stomp (nl), bot (nl)
- Esperanto: malakra
- Estonian: nüri (et)
- Finnish: tylppä (fi), tylsä (fi)
- French: émoussé (fr)
- Galician: moucho (gl), obtuso (gl), mouco (gl)
- Georgian: ბლაგვი (ka) (blagvi)
- German: stumpf (de), abgestumpft (de)
- Greek: αμβλύς (el) (amvlýs)
- Ancient: ἀμβλύς (amblús), κωφός (kōphós)
- Hebrew: קֵהֶה (he) m (qehé)
- Hindi: कुंद (hi) (kund)
- Hungarian: tompa (hu)
- Icelandic: sljór (is)
- Indonesian: tumpul (id), majal (id)
- Ingrian: tyltsä, nyrhi, tylppä
- Italian: spuntato (it)
- Japanese: 鈍い (ja) (にぶい, nibui)
- Khmer: រឹល (km) (rɨl)
- Korean: 무딘 (ko) (mudin)
- Kyrgyz: мокок (ky) (mokok)
- Latin: obtusus, hebes, retusus
- Latvian: truls, neass
- Lithuanian: bukas
- Macedonian: тап (tap)
- Malay: tumpul (ms)
- Manx: neuvirragh, angheyre
- Maori: kotehe, pūnuki, hāpūpū, pūhoi, nguture, pūnguru, pūhuki, kuruhuki, tūnguru, kiporo
- Mongolian: мохоо (mn) (moxoo)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: stump (no)
- Nynorsk: stump
- Occitan: mos
- Persian: کند (fa) (kond)
- Polish: tępy (pl)
- Portuguese: cego (pt), rombo (pt), obtuso (pt)
- Romanian: tocit (ro), neascutit, bont (ro)
- Russian: тупо́й (ru) (tupój)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: туп
- Roman: tup (sh)
- Slovak: tupý
- Slovene: top (sl)
- Spanish: romo (es), obtuso (es), desafilado (es) m, despuntado (es) m, contundente (es), tundente, pompo, boto (es), botoso
- Swedish: trubbig (sv)
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Tausug: tumpul
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: küt (tr)
- Ukrainian: тупи́й (tupýj)
- Vietnamese: cùn (vi)
- Welsh: pŵl (cy), di-awch
- Zazaki: xırt
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dull in understanding; slow of discernment
abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious
hard to impress or penetrate
Noun
blunt (plural blunts)
- A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
- A short needle with a strong point.
- (smoking, slang, US) A marijuana cigar.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana cigarette
2004, Martin Torgoff, “The Temple of Accumulated Error”, in Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 461:[…] to make his point, lead rapper B-Real fired up a blunt in front of the cameras and several hundred thousand people and announced, “I'm taking a hit for every one of y'all!”
- (UK, slang, archaic, uncountable) money
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:money
- A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
Translations
short needle with a strong point
cigar filled with marijuana
Etymology 2
From Middle English blunten, blonten, from the adjective (see above).
Verb
blunt (third-person singular simple present blunts, present participle blunting, simple past and past participle blunted)
- To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
- (figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
It blunted my appetite.
My feeling towards her have been blunted.
2011 January 12, Saj Chowdhury, “Liverpool 2 - 1 Liverpool”, in BBC:That settled the Merseysiders for a short while but it did not blunt the home side's spirit.
2022 August 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail strikes deadlock”, in RAIL, number 964, page 3:I'm not saying that thousands of folk are not being inconvenienced, because they most certainly are, but the impact of strikes on government has been blunted.
Synonyms
Translations
to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker
See also
Further reading
- “blunt”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “blunt”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “blunt”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “blunt”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
Old French
Etymology
From Frankish *blund, from Proto-Germanic *blundaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-.
Pronunciation
Adjective
blunt m (oblique and nominative feminine singular blunde)
- Alternative form of blont
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English blunt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈblant/
- Rhymes: -ant
- Syllabification: blunt
Noun
blunt m animal
- (slang) Alternative spelling of blant
Declension
Further reading
- blunt in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- blunt in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English blunt.
Pronunciation
Noun
blunt m (plural blunts)
- blunt (a marijuana cigar)
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.