obtuse
- adjective
- /əbˈtus/
- Specialized
- -What's "obtuse" mean?
Examples
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There also needs to be provisions about slanted and obtuse coverage of any one candidate to the disadvantage of other candidates.
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Its longer build mirrors the iPhone 5's evolution and makes room for its obtuse 16:9 display.
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Regarding the professor's papers: they don't sound that obtuse to me.
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I could do a fan dance with a lettuce leaf and you would remain completely obtuse!
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It is my desire to make a useful tool, and lots of big blades are far too fat, heavy, and have much too obtuse a
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In fact, we're just going to assume that our chain is in reality, we're going to assume that it's an orthogonal chain, an obtuse chain I should say.
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If Dom Casmurro is a "view of the society" to which Machado de Assis belonged, it is so oblique as to be obtuse.
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The plant produced broad, obtuse leaves that gently unfurled in the sunlight.
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In the botanical garden, the obtuse tips of the leaves were a distinctive feature of the species.
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As the leaf matured, it developed an obtuse shape that set it apart from similar plants.
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An object with a dull edge or tip that does not cut well
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Etymology
The word obtuse comes from the old Latin word obtusus, which means 'blunt' or 'dull'. So in botany an obtuse leaf has a rounded or blunt tip rather than a sharp point.