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OBTUSE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
Example:
worked with the slow students
Synonyms:
dense; dim; dull; dumb; obtuse; slow
Classified under:
Similar:
stupid (lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity)
Derivation:
obtuseness (the quality of being slow to understand)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lacking in insight or discernment
Example:
a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin
Synonyms:
obtuse; purblind
Classified under:
Similar:
undiscerning (lacking discernment)
Derivation:
obtuseness (the quality of being slow to understand)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees
Classified under:
Adjectives
Antonym:
acute (of an angle; less than 90 degrees)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
simple; unsubdivided ((botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions)
Derivation:
obtuseness (the quality of lacking a sharp edge or point)
