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Definition of obtuse in English: obtuseadjective əbˈtjuːs 1Annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand. 迟钝的，愚蠢的 he wondered if the doctor was being deliberately obtuse 他怀疑医生是不是在故作迟钝。 Example sentencesExamples - I frowned, wondering if he was deliberately being obtuse, like I had been with him earlier.
- I wouldn't say these guys were necessarily trying for a hit… they're too obtuse for such a crass act.
- The mainstream media would do us a lot of good by not being obtuse about it.
- When she says Home is ‘quite difficult to describe’ because ‘it doesn't have a plot ’, McCartney isn't being awkward or obtuse, just careful.
- Really, I can't understand how Raspberry would be so obtuse to confuse cause and effect.
- You have to love that intentionally obtuse use of the conditional ‘in case’ - as if the Times reporter didn't really know what the real plan was.
- Those who don't get this are either sadly uninformed or deliberately obtuse.
- When Stephen Sondheim's Follies arrived in 1971, we critics were pretty obtuse about it.
- Young man, are you being deliberately obtuse and provocative?
- Klein was being deliberately obtuse it seems to me.
- Mother can be a little obtuse when she chooses so I didn't shoot back sarcastically, ‘No Mother, I'm doing this out of the goodness of my heart.’
- This is not because they are obtuse or stupid or misdirected.
- When I pressed her and told her of Alana's increasing concern about her eyesight, she looked at me as if I were being deliberately obtuse.
- To this end, the Peak began to ask how America could be so obtuse as to not understand the motives behind the attack.
- Luskin tells Isikoff he did nothing wrong but now concedes ‘I was completely obtuse about the optics of the situation.’
- He's bipolar and I'm completely obtuse to someone's behaviour, so it's a perfect match.
- But, being rather obtuse at times, I ignored it.
Synonyms stupid, dull, slow-witted, slow, dull-witted, unintelligent, witless, half-baked, half-witted, doltish, lumpish, blockish, imperceptive - 1.1 Difficult to understand, especially deliberately so.
some of the lyrics are a bit obtuse 某些抒情诗有点晦涩。 Example sentencesExamples - Worse again, he put together arrangements for his music which were obtuse and wilfully difficult.
- I have noted from reading Hansard and other reports that some members in this House are being deliberately obtuse on this matter.
- My friend here has made an obtuse reference to someone watching us, and to keep our eyes open.
- What's more, it turned a difficult, obtuse administrative issue - campaign financing - into an easy-to-grasp, emotionally appealing one.
- In the fullness of time, ninety-nine percent of the bad, ugly, stupid, obtuse, and banal remains so, and remains so unmemorable that it sinks into oblivion.
- Even for him, this is an especially difficult and obtuse text.
- Brad is being both condescending and obtuse - I have difficulty in seeing any evidence whatsoever of infantilism in the piece that he quotes.
- But all their early 90's radical reinvention meant was wrapping the songs in deliberately obtuse production to make it seem cutting edge.
- The deadpan humour behind their stone-faced radical posturing and deliberately obtuse lyrics were certainly overlooked by many.
- This recording is deeply, willfully obtuse, enigmatic and difficult.
- Also known for her potent, often obtuse poetry is Tori Amos.
- At the first obtuse fact and boring tangent, readers will ditch them.
- The inner mysteries consist of more complex or obtuse symbolism which exists within these same stories.
- The lyrics are suitably obtuse and playful, with just the right amount of post-industrial alienation to re-awaken that eastern block new wave spirit.
- With some it's all there if you read between the lines, while others are deliberately obtuse to maintain an element of privacy.
- Lily wondered if he was deliberately being obtuse.
2(of an angle) more than 90° and less than 180° （角）钝的 Example sentencesExamples - As if the obtuse angle between his thighs isn't enough, Farrell is actually leaning back in his chair.
- Saccheri proved that the hypothesis of the obtuse angle implied the fifth postulate, so obtaining a contradiction.
- Cardinal angles distinct and obtuse with the posterior one being more obtuse than anterior one.
- The largest angle of an obtuse triangle is more than 90 degrees, and the largest angle of an acute triangle is less than 90 degrees.
- The LRF - 800's performance in the field, especially on smaller objects and those with severely obtuse angles, remains to seen.
- Black and white with a tasteful blue cover, Smoke peers out at the capital from an obtuse angle.
- One caveat here for the stick-right or stick-left position - be careful not to throw the dice at an obtuse angle to the back wall.
- These students had studied different types of angles e.g., acute, straight and obtuse angles, and discussed the notion of adjacent angles.
- The cutting edge includes two sections which form an obtuse angle and in the area of a roof-shaped tip merge into each other.
- Other relatively predictable adaptations are the development of an obtuse angle between the scapula and coracoid and the loss of the furcula.
- Walls unexpectedly meet at acute and obtuse angles rather than commonplace right angles.
- Anterior margin of carapace slightly acuminate with less obtuse cardinal angle than posterior margin.
- The rear of the craft was square so the whole thing appeared to be an obtuse triangle with the large angle at the nose.
- The fracture surfaces form acute and obtuse angles with the outer surface of the bone, and they exhibit no perturbations caused by split lines.
- The ileocaecal angle is distorted and often obtuse.
- I found it, I measured it, and, well, I'm sorry, people, but an obtuse angle of 134 degrees just ain't a corner.
- Flat-roofed with lots of glass and obtuse angles sticking out from the corner of a meadow, it is reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright designs.
3Not sharp-pointed or sharp-edged; blunt. 钝的，不锋利的 it had strange obtuse teeth Example sentencesExamples - The sepals are obtuse to rounded, but never retuse as in some plants of L. racemulosa.
- Left anterior auricle shallow, with straight dorsal margin and obtuse, outwardly concave anterior margin lacking a byssal sinus.
- Arcomytilus has a truncated posterior flank between two low, obtuse ridges not found on Nodomytilus.
- The labellum is broad and obtuse, except for the yellow base, which stands erect and half-encloses the column.
- It is a luxuriant plant with opposite oblong and obvoate leaves which abruptly acuminate apically and are obtuse to basally rounded.
- The base of each valve was rounded in both lines, but was blunt and obtuse in Apex and more tapered in DK142.
- In addition, it differs from C. magna in the absence of a closed talonid basin of the m3 and in the obtuse shape of the parastylc of M3.
- The domes are obtuse and flat and are quite distant from each other.
- The relatively obtuse rostrum terminates almost directly in front of the anteriormost tooth socket.
- The muri have an obtuse shape (black arrowhead).
Synonyms rounded, flat, thick, stubby, stubbed, unpointed
Derivativesadverb əbˈtjuːsli The latter strand, featuring the inflexible and obtusely by-the-book Captain Francis, peaks in the episode ‘Bad Company’. Example sentencesExamples - On the flip side, ‘Garden Party for the Murder Pride’ flaunts tacky Trompe Le Monde metal riffs juxtaposed with obtusely sunny hooks.
- As much as President Stevenson wants to obtusely hold to some notion that tuition hikes don't affect access, they do.
- I always answer that obtusely by saying I put myself into Stephen.
- ‘It is not in my current possession,’ he explained obtusely.
noun ɒbˈtjuːsnəs At the time I couldn't believe the obtuseness of the student. Example sentencesExamples - Tracks like ‘Bodies At Rest And In Motion’ can't hide their avant-garde obtuseness, even under skittering drum machines.
- That requires an extraordinary level of political obtuseness.
- This quote is almost perfect in its obtuseness.
- Change the Climate's web page reveals nothing unique or provocative except extraordinarily distressing obtuseness.
noun The sheer obtusity and disgustingness of such an ‘arrangement’ between colony and colonial reveals itself. Example sentencesExamples - In this context the law ought not to give an advantage to obtusity.
OriginLate Middle English (in sense 3): from Latin obtusus, past participle of obtundere 'beat against' (see obtund). Rhymesabstruse, abuse, adduce, Ballets Russes, Belarus, Bruce, burnous, caboose, charlotte russe, conduce, deduce, deuce, diffuse, douce, educe, excuse, goose, induce, introduce, juice, Larousse, loose, luce, misuse, moose, mousse, noose, Palouse, produce, profuse, puce, recluse, reduce, Rousse, seduce, sluice, Sousse, spruce, traduce, truce, use, vamoose, Zeus Definition of obtuse in US English: obtuseadjective 1Annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand. 迟钝的，愚蠢的 he wondered if the doctor was being deliberately obtuse 他怀疑医生是不是在故作迟钝。 Example sentencesExamples - When I pressed her and told her of Alana's increasing concern about her eyesight, she looked at me as if I were being deliberately obtuse.
- Those who don't get this are either sadly uninformed or deliberately obtuse.
- Mother can be a little obtuse when she chooses so I didn't shoot back sarcastically, ‘No Mother, I'm doing this out of the goodness of my heart.’
- I frowned, wondering if he was deliberately being obtuse, like I had been with him earlier.
- He's bipolar and I'm completely obtuse to someone's behaviour, so it's a perfect match.
- When she says Home is ‘quite difficult to describe’ because ‘it doesn't have a plot ’, McCartney isn't being awkward or obtuse, just careful.
- The mainstream media would do us a lot of good by not being obtuse about it.
- You have to love that intentionally obtuse use of the conditional ‘in case’ - as if the Times reporter didn't really know what the real plan was.
- I wouldn't say these guys were necessarily trying for a hit… they're too obtuse for such a crass act.
- This is not because they are obtuse or stupid or misdirected.
- But, being rather obtuse at times, I ignored it.
- Klein was being deliberately obtuse it seems to me.
- To this end, the Peak began to ask how America could be so obtuse as to not understand the motives behind the attack.
- Young man, are you being deliberately obtuse and provocative?
- Really, I can't understand how Raspberry would be so obtuse to confuse cause and effect.
- When Stephen Sondheim's Follies arrived in 1971, we critics were pretty obtuse about it.
- Luskin tells Isikoff he did nothing wrong but now concedes ‘I was completely obtuse about the optics of the situation.’
Synonyms stupid, dull, slow-witted, slow, dull-witted, unintelligent, witless, half-baked, half-witted, doltish, lumpish, blockish, imperceptive - 1.1 Difficult to understand.
难以理解的，晦涩的 some of the lyrics are a bit obtuse 某些抒情诗有点晦涩。 Example sentencesExamples - Lily wondered if he was deliberately being obtuse.
- Worse again, he put together arrangements for his music which were obtuse and wilfully difficult.
- Brad is being both condescending and obtuse - I have difficulty in seeing any evidence whatsoever of infantilism in the piece that he quotes.
- In the fullness of time, ninety-nine percent of the bad, ugly, stupid, obtuse, and banal remains so, and remains so unmemorable that it sinks into oblivion.
- What's more, it turned a difficult, obtuse administrative issue - campaign financing - into an easy-to-grasp, emotionally appealing one.
- I have noted from reading Hansard and other reports that some members in this House are being deliberately obtuse on this matter.
- This recording is deeply, willfully obtuse, enigmatic and difficult.
- The inner mysteries consist of more complex or obtuse symbolism which exists within these same stories.
- Also known for her potent, often obtuse poetry is Tori Amos.
- My friend here has made an obtuse reference to someone watching us, and to keep our eyes open.
- But all their early 90's radical reinvention meant was wrapping the songs in deliberately obtuse production to make it seem cutting edge.
- Even for him, this is an especially difficult and obtuse text.
- With some it's all there if you read between the lines, while others are deliberately obtuse to maintain an element of privacy.
- The deadpan humour behind their stone-faced radical posturing and deliberately obtuse lyrics were certainly overlooked by many.
- The lyrics are suitably obtuse and playful, with just the right amount of post-industrial alienation to re-awaken that eastern block new wave spirit.
- At the first obtuse fact and boring tangent, readers will ditch them.
2(of an angle) more than 90° and less than 180°. （角）钝的 Example sentencesExamples - I found it, I measured it, and, well, I'm sorry, people, but an obtuse angle of 134 degrees just ain't a corner.
- The largest angle of an obtuse triangle is more than 90 degrees, and the largest angle of an acute triangle is less than 90 degrees.
- As if the obtuse angle between his thighs isn't enough, Farrell is actually leaning back in his chair.
- Other relatively predictable adaptations are the development of an obtuse angle between the scapula and coracoid and the loss of the furcula.
- Walls unexpectedly meet at acute and obtuse angles rather than commonplace right angles.
- Black and white with a tasteful blue cover, Smoke peers out at the capital from an obtuse angle.
- One caveat here for the stick-right or stick-left position - be careful not to throw the dice at an obtuse angle to the back wall.
- Saccheri proved that the hypothesis of the obtuse angle implied the fifth postulate, so obtaining a contradiction.
- Cardinal angles distinct and obtuse with the posterior one being more obtuse than anterior one.
- The cutting edge includes two sections which form an obtuse angle and in the area of a roof-shaped tip merge into each other.
- The fracture surfaces form acute and obtuse angles with the outer surface of the bone, and they exhibit no perturbations caused by split lines.
- The rear of the craft was square so the whole thing appeared to be an obtuse triangle with the large angle at the nose.
- These students had studied different types of angles e.g., acute, straight and obtuse angles, and discussed the notion of adjacent angles.
- Anterior margin of carapace slightly acuminate with less obtuse cardinal angle than posterior margin.
- The ileocaecal angle is distorted and often obtuse.
- The LRF - 800's performance in the field, especially on smaller objects and those with severely obtuse angles, remains to seen.
- Flat-roofed with lots of glass and obtuse angles sticking out from the corner of a meadow, it is reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright designs.
3Not sharp-pointed or sharp-edged; blunt. 钝的，不锋利的 Example sentencesExamples - The base of each valve was rounded in both lines, but was blunt and obtuse in Apex and more tapered in DK142.
- The domes are obtuse and flat and are quite distant from each other.
- The sepals are obtuse to rounded, but never retuse as in some plants of L. racemulosa.
- Left anterior auricle shallow, with straight dorsal margin and obtuse, outwardly concave anterior margin lacking a byssal sinus.
- It is a luxuriant plant with opposite oblong and obvoate leaves which abruptly acuminate apically and are obtuse to basally rounded.
- The relatively obtuse rostrum terminates almost directly in front of the anteriormost tooth socket.
- Arcomytilus has a truncated posterior flank between two low, obtuse ridges not found on Nodomytilus.
- In addition, it differs from C. magna in the absence of a closed talonid basin of the m3 and in the obtuse shape of the parastylc of M3.
- The muri have an obtuse shape (black arrowhead).
- The labellum is broad and obtuse, except for the yellow base, which stands erect and half-encloses the column.
Synonyms rounded, flat, thick, stubby, stubbed, unpointed
OriginLate Middle English (in obtuse (sense 3)): from Latin obtusus, past participle of obtundere ‘beat against’ (see obtund). |