OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 5916

obtuse

/əbˈtjuːs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
obtuso
Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
If you put foure Spleets in a Hiue, then cut their backes, where they must leane one against another, to square angles, such as be foure in a circle: if but three, cut them to obtu…
More-over, as the Buildings Ambligon / May more receive then Mansions Oxigon / (Because th' acute, and the rect-Angles too, / Stride not so wide as obtuse Angles doe) / So doth the…
obtuso
Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
Be you a Remainer or a Leaver, you would have to be particularly obtuse not to see that [Theresa] May's hard Tory Brexit will cost this country and its families more than it can co…
When the elder Osborne gave what he called "a hint," there was no possibility for the most obtuse to mistake his meaning. He called kicking a footman downstairs a hint to the latte…