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blunt English

Meaning blunt meaning

What does blunt mean?
Definitions in simple English

blunt Adjective

— When something is blunt, it has a thick end and is not sharp. — Very direct in one's words, usually in a negative manner and in a rude way.

blunt Noun

— A blunt is a type of cigarette.

blunt

— verb make less intense blunted emotions — adjective (= candid, forthright, frank, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion blunt talking and straight shooting a blunt New England farmer I gave them my candid opinion forthright criticism a forthright approach to the problem tell me what you think--and you may just as well be frank it is possible to be outspoken without being rude plainspoken and to the point a point-blank accusation — adjective used of a knife or other blade; not sharp a blunt instrument — adjective having a broad or rounded end thick marks made by a blunt pencil — adjective (= crude, stark) devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment the blunt truth the crude facts facing the stark reality of the deadline — verb make less sharp blunt the knives — verb (= deaden) make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation Terror blunted her feelings deaden a sound — verb (= dull) make dull or blunt Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge — verb (= numb) make numb or insensitive The shock numbed her senses

Synonyms blunt synonyms

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blunt English » English

dull obtuse curt brusque not sharp frank make blunt stupid pointless outspoken crude short allay abrupt unsharpened straightforward stark rough plainspoken flat cold candid blunted uncouth straight-from-the-shoulder rude point-blank plump numb harsh free-spoken forthright foolish dulled direct deaden bluff bare weaken vulgar unwrought unworked unsharped unrefined unpointed uninteresting unfriendly take the edge steep soften

Topics blunt topics

What do people use blunt to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Say True

Tell the truth
States Quality Texture

Blunt

  • What words describe something that is blunt?
    blunt dull

Conjugation blunt conjugation

How do you conjugate blunt?

blunt · verb

Examples blunt examples

How do I use blunt in a sentence?

Simple sentences

My sword may be blunt, but that's more than enough for someone like you.
The knife was so blunt that I could not cut the meat with it and I resorted to my pocket knife.
He was killed by a blunt weapon.
The pencil is blunt. It needs sharpening.
Forgive me for being blunt.
A love triangle has at least two blunt angles.

Movie subtitles

But beyond that, to be blunt, they turned out to be pretty pointless.
A blunt question deserves a blunt answer.
Do you want me to be quite blunt?
Hit them on the head with a blunt instrument.
After all the years we've known each other do you mind if I make a rather blunt statement?
He's blunt with everyone.
Blunt not the heart, enrage it!
Call on our Miss Sash Weight of the blunt instrument department.
But doctor, you're far too blunt about the truth.
Just be sure to lock up all blunt instruments and throwable objects.
To be blunt, the jug.
To be very blunt Mr. Jessup, I'm not particularly interested in saving your neck.
A delicate matter and yet I must be blunt.
I didn't mean to be blunt as that.
Bruise on left temple, blunt instrument.
The murderer knocked him back on the pillow with a blunt instrument.
Oh, I'm sorry to be blunt, Mr Walker.
I know, I know. Hit 'em on the head with a blunt instrument.
After all the years we've known each other. do you mind if I make a rather blunt statement?
You bound and gagged him, but when he attempted a disturbance you hit him heavily over the head with some blunt instrument.
However, you never told the court what the blunt instrument was that you used.
Is that blunt enough?
I shall be blunt. I'm not going to have any more of this confounded hanky panky in my village.
Ms. Thayar, I'm afraid I'm going to have to be blunt.
Mr. Monier, let us be blunt.
Marie, I'll have to be blunt.
Hit 'em on the head with a blunt instrument.
Be this the whetstone of your sword. Let grief convert to anger! Blunt not the heart, enrage it!
That's blunt enough.
To be blunt-- a weed!
Don't be so blunt.
To be very blunt, Mr. Jessup, I'm not particularly interested in saving your neck.

News and current affairs

Many a government minister, Bank officer and NGO representative has experienced his blunt criticism, as well as his effusive praise. The IMF has not been immune to this treatment.
In this context, Japan knows that a deeper strategic collaboration with India - which is also seeking to blunt increasing military pressure from China - is its best move.
We can now see the utility of a more flexible toolkit to respond to excessive credit expansion, or asset-price bubbles, where the manipulation of short-term interest rates can be a blunt instrument or, worse, a double-edged sword.
The combined effect of many different financial innovations will be to blunt the impact of capitalist risk on our individual lives, helping to reduce economic uncertainty and inequality.
Turkey, to be blunt, will not recognize today's divided Cyprus as the sole representative of that island.
But even opponents of Olmert's second war must face the blunt fact that Hamas is lethal.
So far, the regime has merely applied the same blunt measures that fueled Tibetans' grievances in the first place.
This should blunt the macroeconomic impact of bursting bubbles.
Explicit US support for Japanese constitutional reform might not only blunt Chinese criticism, but could also reassure many Japanese that updating Article 9 would not amount to rejecting the postwar order that the Americans helped to establish in Japan.
But legislation is a blunt instrument for dealing with history.
Europe, to be blunt, must devote more energy in the years ahead to addressing its micro challenges rather than to promoting grand ideas.
Interest rates are too blunt an instrument, and risk damaging the wider economy when used to prick a housing bubble, as recent research by BOE Deputy Governor Charlie Bean has shown.
Oil embargos turned out to be a blunt instrument that hurt many besides the targeted countries.
Crisis-weary Europe and America face a rising tide of protectionism at home, and are trying to find ways to blunt the edge of China's non-transparent trade competitiveness.
Many a government minister, Bank officer and NGO representative has experienced his blunt criticism, as well as his effusive praise.
Put differently, real interest rates are too blunt a stimulus tool, even if they work.
The question is whether it is realistic to hope for success unless the government resorts to far more blunt instruments than it currently seems prepared to wield.
But Chinese regulations are sometimes promulgated simply to blunt external criticism, and thus are seldom enforced, except when a case attracts international attention.
And, to be blunt, it was some of Wall Street's biggest players, not overleveraged homeowners, who received generous government bailouts in the aftermath of the crisis.
Despite horrific twentieth-century backsliding in Europe, secularism has served to blunt the edge of bigotry, because secular reasoning, unlike divine revelation, is never conclusive.
In the 1930s, John Maynard Keynes championed limits on the movement of capital in order to blunt the more damaging consequences of globalization.
Whatever one thinks of laws against spreading hatred or insulting people, the law remains a blunt instrument when it came to matters of speech.
But, if we're ready to rush the pandemic strain into an emergency program to manufacture vaccine, we could possibly blunt the second wave.
He rightly believed that reducing the money supply would have been too blunt an instrument to use.

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