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   obtuse

   /əbˈtjuːs/

   adjective

   • 1. annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand: "he wondered if the doctor was being deliberately obtuse"
   • ▪ difficult to understand, especially deliberately so: "some of the lyrics are a bit obtuse"
   • 2. (of an angle) more than 90° and less than 180°: "an obtuse angle of 150°"
   • 3. not sharp-pointed or sharp-edged; blunt: "it had strange obtuse teeth"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in obtuse (sense 3)): from Latin obtusus, past participle of obtundere ‘beat against’ (see obtund).

   Derivatives

   • 1. obtusely adverb
   • 2. obtuseness noun
   • 3. obtusity noun

   Scrabble Points: 8

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