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obtuse

adjective as in slow to understand

adjective as in blunt, not sharp

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Or at least not obtuse about The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

Bennett has a point, but, in a perilously obtuse way, he's also missing the point.

Stupples plays Pete as an absurdly obtuse man-child who reads as David Brent without the mean streak.

That fact makes it shockingly obtuse of Hyundai to make mockery of the act in an ad for its new ix35.

"He is not entirely obtuse about what the relationship really is," Miller said.

No trail was so obtuse, no thicket so dense that members of that regiment would not track them to their lair.

Either Mrs. Morgan was obtuse or ignorant, for she gave no response for some time to Mary's stream of words.

Much as Jethro had blundered, and obtuse as he was in many things, he understood what had taken place.

The second Swastika has its ends bent at an obtuse angle to the left, and at the extremities the lines taper to a point.

Directly across from them at a table which formed a wide obtuse angle with theirs were four girls.

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On this page you'll find 58 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to obtuse, such as: dense, dopey, dull, dumb, imperceptive, and insensitive.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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