Usually means: Not sharp; slow to understand.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. obtuse: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. obtuse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. obtuse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. obtuse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. obtuse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Obtuse, obtuse: Wordnik
  7. obtuse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. obtuse: Wiktionary
  9. obtuse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. obtuse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. obtuse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. obtuse: Dictionary.com
  13. obtuse: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. obtuse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Obtuse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Obtuse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. obtuse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. obtuse: Rhymezone
  19. obtuse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. obtuse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. obtuse: Free Dictionary
  22. obtuse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. obtuse: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. obtuse: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. obtuse: Legal dictionary

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  1. obtuse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Obtuse: MedFriendly Glossary
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  3. obtuse: Medical dictionary

Science (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Obtuse: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. obtuse: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  5. Bryological (No longer online)
  6. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  7. Obtuse: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  8. obtuse: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  9. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obtuse: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obtuse: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

(Note: See obtusely as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (now chiefly botany, zoology) Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
adjective:  (botany, zoology) Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.
adjective:  (geometry, specifically, of an angle) Larger than one, and smaller than two right angles, or more than 90° and less than 180°.
adjective:  (geometry, by ellipsis) Obtuse-angled, having an obtuse angle.
adjective:  Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
adjective:  Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.
adjective:  Indirect or circuitous.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To dull or reduce an emotion or a physical state.

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