Of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees.
Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity.
Lacking in insight or discernment.
1 Bats without facial membranes; with short obtuse and bull-doggish heads; large lips.
2 Forgive me for being so obtuse , but what is your new job?
3 I couldn't tell if he was being cagey, or was simply obtuse .
4 And then came the events of November and Andrew's obtuse , mortifying interview.
5 The pubic bones were long, and met above an obtuse sub-pubic angle.
6 To the most obtuse mind these arrangements could convey but one meaning.
7 Yet our obtuse ancestors had for centuries refused to take the hint.
8 She is not so much hard and hateful as mistaken and obtuse .
9 But Wheatley's latest is considerably more obtuse than even those odd films.
10 The gardener was very obtuse , but finally contributed one possibly important fact.
11 He spoke slowly as one lecturing to an obtuse class of scholars.
12 The jagged guitars and the obtuse lyrics struck a chord with me.
13 It has a rude, depressed, and obtuse head, and a compressed tail.
14 Pierre shrugged a shoulder gently, for he thought Tybalt was unusually obtuse .
15 I understood that, Annesley excused herself, blushing lest she had appeared obtuse .
16 He was as obtuse as a post to his wife's meaning look.
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