• (British, America) IPA: /blʌnt/

blunt (comparative blunter, superlative bluntest)

1. Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
   • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene iv]:

     The murderous knife was dull and blunt.

2. 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: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene v]:

     His wits are not so blunt.

3. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.

   the blunt admission that he had never liked my company

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene ii]:

     a plain, blunt man

4. Hard to impress or penetrate.
   • December 30, 1736, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift

     I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions.}}

5. Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.

• (having a thick edge or point) dull, pointless, coarse
• (dull in understanding) stupid, obtuse
• (abrupt in address) curt, short, rude, brusque, impolite, uncivil, harsh

• French: émoussé
• German: stumpf, abgestumpft
• Italian: spuntato
• Portuguese: cego, rombo, obtuso
• Russian: тупо́й
• Spanish: romo, obtuso

• French: sot, obtus, idiot
• Italian: ottuso
• Portuguese: obtuso
• Russian: тупо́й
• Spanish: obtuso

• French: abrupt
• German: ungehobelt, unverblümt
• Portuguese: brusco
• Russian: гру́бый
• Spanish: brusco

• German: abgestumpft
• Italian: spuntato
• Portuguese: obtuso

blunt (plural blunts)

1. A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
2. A short needle with a strong point.
3. (smoking) A marijuana cigar.
   • 2005: 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!” — Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, p. 461)
4. (UK, slang, archaic, uncountable) money
   • 1836 March – 1837 October​, Charles Dickens, chapter 10, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, OCLC 28228280 ↗:

     Down he goes to the Commons, to see the lawyer and draw the blunt […]

5. A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.

• French: blunt
• German: Blunt
• Portuguese: beque
• Russian: кося́к
• Spanish: porro, filin, blon

blunt (blunts, present participle blunting; past and past participle blunted)

1. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
2. (figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of

   It blunted my appetite.

   My feeling towards her have been blunted.

• blunten

• French: émousser
• German: abstumpfen
• Italian: smussare, spuntare
• Portuguese: cegar
• Spanish: embotar

• French: réprimer
• Portuguese: reprimir
• Spanish: embotar