blunt

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a. 钝的, 坦率的, 麻痹的

发音

UK /blʌnt/
US /blʌnt/
其它 /blʊnt/

词形变化

blunts 复数 blunts blunted blunteth blunting blunts 三单 blunting 现在分词 blunted 过去式 blunted 过去分词 blunter 比较级 blunter bluntest bluntest 最高级

教材释义与例句

动词

使迟钝

形容词

钝的，不锋利的；生硬的；直率的

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    A short needle with a strong point.

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    A marijuana cigar.

    美国 可数 俚语 不可数
  4. 4.

    Money.

    英国 古体 俚语 不可数 可数
  5. 5.

    A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.

    可数 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.

  2. 2.

    To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of

    比喻

    It blunted my appetite.

    My feeling towards her have been blunted.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.

    钝

  2. 2.

    Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.

  3. 3.

    Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting in the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.

    I was taken aback by the blunt admission that he had never liked my company.

  4. 4.

    Hard to impress or penetrate.

    December 30, 1736, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions.

  5. 5.

    Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.

词汇关系

动词

同义词 4

dull numb deaden benumb

上位词 6

change alter weaken modify desensitise desensitize

下位词 7

break damp soften weaken dampen obtund petrify
形容词

同义词 10

frank stark crude candid point-blank outspoken forthright free-spoken plainspoken straight from the shoulder

近义相关 6

direct dull pointless unconditional unconditioned unpointed

相关短语

blunt instrument 钝器 blunt instruments John Blunt

词源

From Middle English blunt, blont, from Old English *blunt, probably of North Germanic origin, possibly related to Old Norse blunda (“to doze”) (> Icelandic blunda, Swedish blunda, Danish blunde).

来源：wiktionary