[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

blunt \blunt\, n.
   1. a fencer's foil. obs.
      1913 webster

   2. a short needle with a strong point. see needle.
      1913 webster

   3. money. cant --beaconsfield.
      1913 webster
see also:
needle 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

blunt \blunt\ blu^nt, a. cf. prov. g. bludde a dull or
   blunt knife, dan. blunde to sleep, sw.  icel. blunda; or
   perh. akin to e. blind.
   1. having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not
      sharp.
      1913 webster

            the murderous knife was dull and blunt. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; --
      opposed to acute.
      1913 webster

            his wits are not so blunt.            --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms
      of civility; rough in manners or speech. "hiding his
      bitter jests in blunt behavior." "a plain, blunt man."
      --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. hard to impress or penetrate. r.
      1913 webster

            i find my heart hardened and blunt to new
            impressions.                          --pope.
      1913 webster

   note: blunt is much used in composition, as blunt-edged,
         blunt-sighted, blunt-spoken.
         1913 webster

   syn: obtuse; dull; pointless; curt; short; coarse; rude;
        brusque; impolite; uncivil.
        1913 webster
see also:
acute 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

blunt \blunt\, v. t. imp.  p. p. blunted; p. pr.  vb. n.
   blunting.
   1. to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to
      make blunt. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. to repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of
      the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or
      susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.
      1913 webster
see also:
blunted blunting 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

blunt
     adj 1: having a broad or rounded end; "thick marks made by a blunt
            pencil"
     2: used of a knife or other blade; not sharp; "a blunt
        instrument"
     3: characterized by directness in manner or speech; without
        subtlety or evasion; "blunt talking and straight
        shooting"; "a blunt new england farmer"; "i gave them my
        candid opinion"; "forthright criticism"; "a forthright
        approach to the problem"; "tell me what you think--and you
        may just as well be frank"; "it is possible to be
        outspoken without being rude"; "plainspoken and to the
        point"; "a point-blank accusation" syn: candid, forthright,
         frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank,
         straight-from-the-shoulder
     4: devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the
        blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality
        of the deadline" syn: crudea, starka
     v 1: make less intense; "blunted emotions"
     2: make numb or insensitive; "the shock numbed her senses"
        syn: numb, benumb, dull
     3: make dull or blunt; "too much cutting dulls the knife's
        edge" syn: dull ant: sharpen
     4: make less sharp; "blunt the knives"
     5: make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor,
        force, activity, or sensation; "terror blunted her
        feelings"; "deaden a sound" syn: deaden ant: enliven
see also:
candid forthright frank free-spoken outspoken plainspoken 
point-blank straight-from-the-shoulder crudea starka numb 
benumb dull sharpen deaden enliven 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

308 moby thesaurus words for "blunt":
   ko, abate, abrupt, affectless, aggressive, allay, alleviate,
   anesthetize, anesthetized, arctic, artless, assuage, attemper,
   attenuate, autistic, bank the fire, bate, bearish, beastly, bedaze,
   benumb, besot, bluff, blunt-edged, blunt-ended, blunt-pointed,
   blunt-witted, blunted, bluntish, blur, born yesterday, brash,
   brass, bread, brief, broad, brusque, cabbage, candid, catatonic,
   cavalier, chasten, childlike, chill, chilly, chips, chloroform,
   churlish, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldcock,
   coldhearted, confiding, constrain, control, cool, cramp, cripple,
   crusty, curt, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, debilitate,
   deflect, desensitize, deter, devitalize, dim, dim-witted, diminish,
   dinero, direct, disable, disaffect, discourage, discourteous,
   disedge, disincline, disinterest, dispassionate, distract, divert,
   do-re-mi, dope, dopey, downplay, downright, draw the teeth, drug,
   drugged, dull, dull of mind, dull-edged, dull-headed, dull-pated,
   dull-pointed, dull-witted, dulled, dullish, edgeless, efface,
   emotionally dead, emotionless, enervate, enfeeble, etherize,
   eviscerate, exhaust, explicit, extenuate, faired, fat-witted,
   forthright, frank, frankhearted, free, free hand, free-acting,
   free-going, free-moving, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued,
   freehanded, freeze, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, genuine,
   gross-headed, gruel, gruff, guileless, harsh, heart-to-heart,
   heartless, heavy, hebetate, hebetudinous, icy, immovable,
   impassible, impassive, impolite, inconsiderate, indelicate,
   indispose, inexcitable, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, insensitive,
   insusceptible, jack, kayo, keep within bounds, knock out,
   knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lay, lay low,
   lay out, lenify, lessen, lighten, mitigate, moderate, modulate,
   mollify, mull, naive, narcotize, nonemotional, numb, objective,
   obscure, obtund, obtuse, open, openhearted, out of touch,
   outspoken, palliate, palsy, paralyze, passionless, plain,
   plain-spoken, play down, pointless, put off, put to sleep, quench,
   rattle, reduce, reduce the temperature, repel, repress, restrain,
   retund, rough, round, rounded, rude, sap, self-absorbed, severe,
   shake, shake up, sharp, short, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded,
   sincere, single-hearted, single-minded, slacken, slow, slow down,
   slow-witted, sluggish, smoothed, smother, snippety, snippy, sober,
   sober down, soften, soften up, soothe, soulless, spiritless,
   stifle, straight, straight-out, straightforward, stun, stupefy,
   subdue, suppress, surly, tame, temper, thick-brained, thick-headed,
   thick-pated, thick-witted, thickskulled, thoughtless, tone down,
   transparent, truculent, trustful, trusting, tune down, turn,
   turn aside, turn away, turn from, turn off, unaffectionate,
   unbrace, unceremonious, unchecked, uncivil, uncomplicated,
   uncompromising, unconstrained, undermine, underplay, undiplomatic,
   unedged, unemotional, unequivocal, unfeeling, ungracious,
   unguarded, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving, unman,
   unnerve, unpassionate, unpointed, unreserved, unresponding,
   unresponsive, unrestrained, unsharp, unsharpened, unsophisticated,
   unstrengthen, unstring, unsusceptible, unsuspicious, unsympathetic,
   untouchable, unwary, weaken, wean from, wooden, worn

[6] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

blunt, sd city, fips 6180
  location: 44.51547 n, 99.98797 w
  population 1990: 342 172 housing units
  area: 1.3 sq km land, 0.0 sq km water
  zip codes: 57522

[7] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

blunt, sd -- u.s. city in south dakota
   population 2000:    370
   housing units 2000: 178
   land area 2000:     0.491587 sq. miles 1.273204 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.000000 sq. miles 0.000000 sq. km
   total area 2000:    0.491587 sq. miles 1.273204 sq. km
   fips code:            06180
   located within:       south dakota sd, fips 46
   location:             44.516505 n, 99.988340 w
   zip codes 1990:     57522
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    blunt, sd
    blunt

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