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obtuse

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Adjective

  1. Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
  2. Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form: Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.
  3. Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form: Larger than one, and smaller than two right angles, or more than 90° and less than 180°.
  4. Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form: Obtuse-angled, having an obtuse angle.
  5. Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
  6. Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.
  7. Indirect or circuitous.

Verb

  1. To dull or reduce an emotion or a physical state.

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