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obtuse
Synonyms and Antonyms of obtuse
1
lacking sharpness of edge or point
jagged, needlelike, prickly, spiked, spikelike, spiky (also spikey), spiny
2
not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily
airheaded, birdbrained, bonehead, boneheaded, brain-dead, brainless, bubbleheaded, chuckleheaded, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, gormless [chiefly British], half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), lunkheaded, mindless, oafish, opaque, pinheaded, senseless, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, stupid, thick, thick-witted, thickheaded, unintelligent, unsmart, vacuous, weak-minded, witless
cretinous, feebleminded, simpleminded
boobish, foolish, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic
ignorant, illiterate, lowbrow, uneducated, uninformed, unintellectual, untaught, unthinking
absurd, asinine, balmy, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, featherheaded, fool, half-baked, harebrained, insane, kooky (also kookie), loony (also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, silly, tomfool, unwise, wacky (also whacky), zany
acute, astute, discerning, insightful, keen, knowing, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sage, sapient, savvy, wise
cerebral, erudite, highbrow, intellectual, knowledgeable, learned, literate, scholarly, thinking, well-read
educated, informed, schooled, skilled, trained
crafty, cunning, foxy, shrewd, wily
Synonym Discussion of obtuse
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- a dull pain
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- a dull mind
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- a person of blunt sensibility
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- too obtuse to take the hint
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