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obtuse

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obtuse in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
    "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"
    dense  dim  dull  dumb  obtuse  slow 
  2. of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees
    obtuse 
  3. (of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex
    obtuse 
  4. lacking in insight or discernment
    "too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior"; "a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin"- Jasper Griffin
    obtuse  purblind 
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