Definition of Obtuse

Adjective

  • slow to learn or understand
    lacking intellectual acuity
    "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"
    "never met anyone quite so dim"
    "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray
    "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"
    "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"
    "worked with the slow students"
  • lacking in insight or discernment
    "too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior"
    "a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin"- Jasper Griffin
  • (of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex
  • of an angle
    between 90 and 180 degrees
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Unscramble obtuse

73 unscramble word found using the letters obtuse.
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