obtuse

About 0.65 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form. Blunt, or rounded at the extremity. Having a measure between 90° and 180°.
2. adjective Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.
3. adjective Having a measure between 90° and 180°.
4. adjective Obtuse-angled, having an obtuse angle.
5. adjective Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
6. adjective Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.
7. adjective Indirect or circuitous.
8. verb To dull or reduce an emotion or a physical state.

Similar words

dense purblind slow stupid dull dumb simple undiscerning dim unsubdivided

Often followed by

angle and angles or to at in as triangle

Word family

obtusely obtuseness obtusenesses obtuser obtusest