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General dictionaries General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. obtuse: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
  2. obtuse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. obtuse: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  4. obtuse: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  5. obtuse: Wordnik [home, info]
  6. obtuse: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  7. Obtuse: Wiktionary [home, info]
  8. obtuse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  9. obtuse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  10. obtuse: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  11. obtuse: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  12. obtuse: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  13. obtuse: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  14. obtuse: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  15. Obtuse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  16. Obtuse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  17. obtuse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  18. obtuse: Rhymezone [home, info]
  19. obtuse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  20. obtuse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  21. obtuse: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  22. obtuse: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  23. obtuse: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  24. obtuse: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  25. obtuse: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  26. obtuse: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obtuse: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obtuse: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Obtuse: MedFriendly Glossary [home, info]
  2. obtuse: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  3. obtuse: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. obtuse: Archaeology Wordsmith [home, info]
  2. Obtuse: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology [home, info]
  3. obtuse: Botanical Terms [home, info]
  4. obtuse: MATH SPOKEN HERE! [home, info]
  5. obtuse: Bryological [home, info]
  6. obtuse: Flora of New South Wales [home, info]
  7. Obtuse: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia [home, info]
  8. obtuse: PlanetMath Encyclopedia [home, info]
  9. obtuse: Anthropology dictionary [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obtuse: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions (obtuse)

adjective:  of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees
adjective:  of a leaf shape; rounded at the apex
adjective:  lacking in insight or discernment ("Too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior")
adjective:  slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity ("He was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse")

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Phrases that include obtuse:   obtuse angle, obtuse angled triangle, bisectrix obtuse, obtuse bard, obtuse marginal branches

Words similar to obtuse:   dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtusely, obtuseness, obtuser, obtusest, purblind, slow, crass, more...


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