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obtuse in WordNet English dictionary
adjective- 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
- of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees
obtuse
- (of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex
obtuse
- 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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