BLUNT vs DULL: NOUN
- A marijuana cigar.
- A short needle with a strong point.
- Money.
- A short needle with a strong point. See Needle.
- A fencer's foil.
- [Slang, and perhaps of different origin.] Money; ready money.
- A needle of a grade shorter and less sharply pointed than a sharp. See needle.
- A blunt sword for fencing; a foil.
- A marijuana cigarette that has been rolled in a cigar's tobacco leaf wrapper instead of rolling paper.
- A cigar whose interior has been hollowed out and filled with marijuana.
- A noose of string or wire used to snare fish; usually, a noose of bright copper wire attached by a short string to a stout pole.
BLUNT vs DULL: ADJECTIVE
- Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive
- Hard to impress or penetrate.
- Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
- Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.
- Slow to perceive, understand, or feel; dull or insensitive.
- Stark; unadorned.
- Abrupt and often disconcertingly frank in speech: : gruff.
- Having a dull edge or end; not sharp.
- Used of a knife or other blade; not sharp
- Characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion
- Devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
- Having a broad or rounded end
- Not bright or intelligent; stupid; slow of understanding.
- Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster.
- Boring; not exciting or interesting.
- Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
- Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; ; hence, cloudy; overcast.
- Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert.
- Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim
- Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt.
- Insensible; unfeeling.
- Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.
- Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.
- Dispirited; depressed.
- Lacking responsiveness or alertness; insensitive.
- Intellectually weak or obtuse; stupid.
- Not clear or resonant.
- Cloudy or overcast.
- Not bright, vivid, or shiny.
- Not intensely or keenly felt.
- Not having a sharp edge or point; blunt.
- Not brisk or rapid; sluggish.
- Arousing little interest; lacking liveliness; boring.
- Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
- Lacking in liveliness or animation
- Not keenly felt
- Not having a sharp edge or point
- Darkened with overcast
- (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted
- Emitting or reflecting very little light
- (of business) not active or brisk
- Blunted in responsiveness or sensibility
- Not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft
- Being or made softer or less loud or clear
BLUNT vs DULL: VERB
- To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.
- Make numb or insensitive
- Make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation
- Make dull or blunt
- Make less intense
- Make less sharp
- To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
- To soften, moderate or blunt.
- To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
- Make numb or insensitive
- Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
- Become less interesting or attractive
- Make dull or blunt
- Make dull in appearance
- Become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness
- Make less lively or vigorous
BLUNT vs DULL: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To become blunt.
- To make less effective; weaken.
- To dull the edge of (a knife, for example).
- To become dull or stupid.
BLUNT vs DULL: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
- To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.
- To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
- To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.
- To deprive of sharpness of edge or point.
BLUNT vs DULL: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Without subtlety or evasion
- Not sharp
- Used of a knife or other blade
- Synonyms Brusk, bluff, uncivil, rude, uncourteous.
- Faint.
- Hard to penetrate.
- Plain; plain-spoken; unceremonious or unconventional; direct; free from circumlocution: as, blunt truths; a blunt bearing.
- Rough in manner or speech; rude; unpolished; hence, abrupt in address or manner; plain-spoken; unceremonious: applied to persons.
- Obtuse; free from sharp angularities, projections, or corners.
- Dull in understanding; slow of discernment.
- Obtuse, thick, or dull, as an angle, edge, or point; having an obtuse, thick, or dull edge or point, as a foil, sword, pencil, etc.; not sharp or acute.
- To become blunt: as, the blade blunts easily.
- To weaken or deaden, as appetite, desire, or power of the mind; impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility of.
- To make blunt, as an edge or point; dull the edge or point of, as a knife or bodkin, by making it thicker.
- Not clear and resonant
- Lacking intellectual acuity
- Slow to learn or understand
- Highly diluted
- (of color) very low in saturation
- Lose shine or brightness
- Not keenly felt; not intense: as, a dull pain.
- Not sharp or acute; obtuse; blunt: as, a dull sword; a dull needle.
- Not bright or clear; not vivid; dim; obscure: as, a dull fire or light; a dull red color; the mirror gives a dull reflection.
- Gross; inanimate; insensible.
- Not pleasing or enlivening; not exhilarating; causing dullness or ennui; depressing; cheerless: as, dull weather; a dull prospect.
- Sad; melancholy; depressed; dismal.
- Wanting sensibility or keenness; not quick in perception: as, dull of hearing; dull of seeing.
- Heavy; sluggish; drowsy; inanimate; slow in thought, expression, or action: as, a surfeit leaves one dull; a dull thinker; a dull sermon; a dull stream; trade is dull.
- Stupid; foolish; doltish; blockish; slow of understanding: as, a lad of dull intellect.
- To become deadened in color; lose brightness.
- To become calm; moderate: as, the wind dulled, or dulled down, about twelve o'clock.
- To become dull or blunt; become stupid.
- To make less keenly felt; moderate the intensity of: as, to dull pain.
- To make less sharp or acute; render blunt or obtuse: as, to dull a knife or a needle.
- To render dim; sully; tarnish or cloud: as, the breath dulls a mirror.
- To make dull, stupid, heavy, insensible, etc.; lessen the vigor, activity, or sensitiveness of; render inanimate; damp: as, to dull the wits; to dull the senses.
- To fish with a dull: as, to dull for trout.
- (transitive; intransitive verb) To make or become dull.
BLUNT vs DULL: RELATED WORDS
- Free spoken, Benumb, Unconditional, Crude, Pointless, Numb, Dull, Deaden, Direct, Plainspoken, Stark, Outspoken, Candid, Forthright, Frank
- Damp, Muted, Dim, Lusterless, Lackluster, Wearisome, Tiresome, Leaden, Tedious, Humdrum, Uninteresting, Drab, Monotonous, Dreary, Boring
BLUNT vs DULL: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Free spoken, Benumb, Unconditional, Crude, Pointless, Numb, Dull, Deaden, Direct, Plainspoken, Stark, Outspoken, Candid, Forthright, Frank
- Damp, Muted, Dim, Lusterless, Lackluster, Wearisome, Tiresome, Leaden, Tedious, Humdrum, Uninteresting, Drab, Monotonous, Dreary, Boring
BLUNT vs DULL: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Well it made square edges sharp blunt edges and made sharpe edges blunt.
- ALEXANDER ACOSTA, SECRETARY opening statement of senator roy blunt Senator Blunt.
- Following a brief heat inactivation step, the blunt phosphorylated insert is combined with blunt dephosphorylated vector and then ligated.
- Nagy KK, et al: Determining which patients require evaluation for blunt cardiac injury following blunt chest trauma.
- The mismeasurement of quality by readmission rate: How blunt is too blunt an instrument?
- And something just came over my blunt eye making it more blunt.
- Blunt instruments, or any blunt instrument capable of causing injury.
- This sequel banishes Blunt, and her blunt outrage.
- Blunt vector using Zero Blunt PCR Cloning Kit.
- Blunt vector and Zero blunt PCR cloning kit.
- It may be dull or nearly glassy looking.
- Visceral pain is typically vague, dull, and nauseating.
- The scrolls are merely records of dull transactions.
- Always remove unwanted hairs in dull lighting only.
- Australian caviar that replenishes tired and dull complexions.
- My dear father, only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
- For example, we can freely rearrange order of adjectives examples sentences a dull, dark, and depressing day: a depressing, dark, dull day.
- These are not questions of mere dull common sense; it is only dull absence of common sense which will think them so.
- Zinc puts a very fine layer on, what goes in dull comes out dull.
- However it is dull, I mean real dull.
BLUNT vs DULL: QUESTIONS
- Where was the original Monster by William Blunt recorded?
- How to sew fingerless gloves with blunt eye needles?
- Is Emily Blunt really singing in Mary Poppins Returns?
- Why are blunt ends not always desired in biotechnology?
- How much money does Senator Blunt receive from Monsanto?
- How is blunt force trauma used in forensic science?
- Why choose blunt envy Union aluminium scooter bars?
- Are blunt wraps and colored rolling papers harmful?
- Do cigar wrappers contain nicotine in blunt smoking?
- How does ISRIB blunt the integrated stress response?
- What to do if the beams look dull after varnishing?
- What does the Bible say about dull clouds in dreams?
- How can I Keep my hardwood floors from getting dull?
- Does the Holy Spirit dull your memories when confession ends?
- What does dull percussion mean in a pulmonary examination?
- What does dull percussion sound like in a pleurisy?
- When is dull a more appropriate choice than stupid?
- What are some examples of unoriginal and dull sentences?
- Are your course descriptions dull or grammatically sloppy?
- What causes dull cramping discontinuous chest pain?