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Obtuse

adjective

(compar. obtuser; superl. obtusest)

Of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees.

(of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex.

Lacking in insight or discernment. Synonym: purblind. "A purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin"

Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity. Synonyms: dense, dim, dull, dumb, slow. "Never met anyone quite so dim" , "Although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick" , "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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"Obtuse" Quotes from Famous Books

... power of thought and expression, is the happiest gift an author's fairy godmother can bestow upon him, saves Kielland from saying too much—from enforcing his lesson by marginal comments, a la George Eliot. But he must be obtuse, indeed, to whom this reticence is not more eloquent and effective than a ...

— Tales of Two Countries • Alexander Kielland

... "I mean a most obtuse and insensible young man, walking by my side, who has learned to interpret Greek and Latin at college, ...

— Fairy Fingers - A Novel • Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie

... expected to draw her uncle into a matrimonial discussion by an argument ad omnipotentem, was stupefied; but persons of obtuse mind have the terrible logic of children, which consists in turning from answer to question,—a logic that is ...

— An Old Maid • Honore de Balzac

... hands of men of either of these two classes, we shall show ourselves false to America's past. Moreover, the demagog and the corruptionist often work hand in hand. There are at this moment wealthy reactionaries of such obtuse morality that they regard the public servant who prosecutes them when they violate the law, or who seeks to make them bear their proper share of the public burdens, as being even more objectionable than the violent agitator who ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... in the wake of a conqueror, and gorge upon that which is already overthrown. In the succeeding stanza, 29, two other epithetal similes are bestowed upon the monsters—they become 'reptiles' and 'ephemeral insects.' All these repulsive images are of course here applied to critics of wilfully obtuse or malignant mind, such as Shelley accounted the Quarterly ...

— Adonais • Shelley

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