256 - Obtuse

Obtuse : Adj

  1. (formal, disapproving) slow or unwilling to understand something (Oxford)

  2. [usually before noun] (geometry) (of an angle) between 90° and 180° (Oxford)

  3. stupid and slow to understand, or unwilling to try to understand (Cambridge)

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Sentence (s)

  1. Are you being deliberately obtuse? (Oxford)

  2. He was either completely ignorant or being wilfully obtuse. (Oxford)

  3. I’m not trying to be obtuse, but I don’t get it. (Cambridge)

Phrases & Connected Words

  • being deliberately obtuse

  • being wilfully obtuse

  • trying to be obtuse

Synonym(s)

  1. Dumb

  2. Imperceptive

Antonym(s)

  1. Intelligent

  2. Sharp

Word Family

  1. Obtuseness