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==English==
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===Etymology===
[[File:Angle ex2.svg|thumb|The [[angle#Noun|angle]] marked β is obtuse ''(sense 1.2)'' as it is greater than 90° but less than 180°]]

{{root|en|ine-pro|*(s)tewd-}}
From {{der|en|frm|obtus||obtuse (''geometry''); narrow-minded, obtuse; boring, dull, lifeless}}, from {{der|en|la|obtūsus||blunt, dull; obtuse}}, {{glossary|past tense|past}} {{glossary|participle}} of {{m|la|obtundere}}, from {{m|la|obtundō||to batter, beat, strike; to blunt, dull}}, from {{m|la|ob-||against}} (see {{m|en|ob-}}) + {{m|la|tundō||to beat, strike; to bruise, crush, pound}} (ultimately from {{der|en|ine-pro|*(s)tewd-}}, from {{m|ine-pro|*(s)tew-||to hit; to push}}). More at {{m|en|obtund}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/əbˈtjuːs/|/-ˈtʃuːs/|a=UK}}
* {{IPA|en|/əbˈt(j)us/|/ɑb-/|a=GA}}
* {{audio|en|en-us-obtuse.ogg|a=GA}}
* {{audio|en|en-au-obtuse.ogg|a=AU}}
* {{rhymes|en|uːs|s=2}}
* {{hyphenation|en|ob|tuse}}

===Adjective===
{{en-adj|er|more}}

# {{lb|en|now|chiefly|botany|zoology}} {{l|en|blunt|Blunt}}; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Francis Lord Verulam; Viscount St. Alban &#91;{{w|Francis Bacon}}&#93;|chapter=Century VIII|title=Sylva Sylvarum, or, A Natural History, in Ten Centuries: Whereunto is Newly Added, the History Natural and Experimental of [Life] and Death, or of the Prolongation of Life. […]|edition=9th and last|location=London|publisher=William Rawley|year=1670|page=161|section=paragraph 766|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=5gU2AQAAMAAJ&pg=161|oclc=42391224|text=For we see a Feather or a Rush drawn along the Lip or Cheek, doth tickle; whereas a thing more '''obtuse''', or a touch more hard, doth not.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1817|author=William Cowper|title=The Task|page=58|text=See then the quiver broken and decay'd, / In which are kept our arrows! Rusting there / In wild disorder, and unfit for use, / […] Their points '''obtuse''', and feathers drunk with wine!|location=London|publisher=John Sharpe|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=IYQgAAAAMAAJ&dq=obtuse&pg=PA58}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Ernest Bramah|chapter=XV|chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=yUd-CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT152|title=[[w:The Moon of Much Gladness|The Moon of Much Gladness: Related by Kai Lung]]|location=London|publisher=[[w:Cassell (publisher)|Cassell and Co.]]|year=1932|oclc=51025099|location2=[s.l.]|publisher2=Read Books|year2=2013|section2=section IV|isbn2=978-1-4733-9248-9|passage=Yet you do not brighten what would otherwise be dull, impart a keenness to the '''obtusest''' point, and diffuse a general lustre?}}
## {{lb|en|botany|zoology}} Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.
##* {{quote-book|en|author=Francis Rabelais [''i.e.'', {{w|François Rabelais}}]; &#91;{{w|Peter Anthony Motteux}}, transl.&#93;|chapter=How Pantagruel Did Put Himself in a Readiness to Go to Sea; and of the Herb Named Pantagruelion|title=[[w:Gargantua and Pantagruel|The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel [...]]]|location=London|publisher=Navarre Society|year=1653|year_published=1921|volume=II|section=book III|pages=57–58|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=USmgAAAAMAAJ&dq=obtuse&pg=PA58|oclc=228675398|passage=The Herb Pantagruelion hath a little Root somewhat hard and ruff, roundish, terminating in an '''obtuse''' and very blunt Point, and having some of its Veins, Strings or Filaments coloured with some spots of white, {{...}}}}
## {{lb|en|geometry|specifically|of an|angle}} Larger than one, and smaller than two right angles, or more than 90° and less than 180°.
##: {{hyper|en|salient}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:Charles Butler (beekeeper)|Charles Butler]]|chapter=Of the Hiues, and the Dressing of Them|title=The Feminine Monarchie: or, The Historie of Bees: Shewing Their Admirable Nature, and Properties, Their Generation, and Colonies, Their Gouernment, Loyaltie, Art, Industrie, Enemies, Warres, Magnanimitie, &c. […]|location=London|year=1623|section=chapter 3, section 11, footnote c|oclc=63334619|year2=1985|publisher2=Northern Bee Books|location2=Mytholmroyd, U.K.|sectionurl=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924090131438?urlappend=%3Bseq=60|text=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 '''obtuse''' angles, such as are three in a circle: (you may readily try them, before you put them in, by Moulds made iust to those formes) and so will they stand close and firme together.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|year=1641|title=The Complete Works of Joshua Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited […]|page=156|text=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 Circle in his Circuit span / More room then any other Figure can.|chapter=The Columnes. The Fourth Part of the Second Day of the II. Weeke|lines=198–203|editor=Alexander B. Grosart|publisher=Edinburgh Univ. Press|year_published=1880|pageurl=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015083993504?urlappend=%3Bseq=222}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=Ch[arles] Couche|tlr=James N. Shoolbred|chapter=Special Points in the Permanent Way|title=Permanent Way Rolling Stock and Technical Working of Railways. Followed by an Appendix on Works of Art|location=London|publisher=Dulau & Co., 37, {{w|Soho Square}}; Paris: Dunod, 49, Quai des Augustins|year=1877|volume=I|section=§ XIV (Rail-crossings), paragraph 258|page=316|pageurl=https://archive.org/stream/permanentwayrol00coucgoog#page/n334/mode/1up/|oclc=58932800|passage='''''Obtuse''' angles of the through crossing.'' — The system of the two '''obtuse'''-angled points is especially termed the dead-crossing. {{...}} The point itself, less liable to damage than that of the crossing proper, on account of its '''obtuse''' form and its position relatively to the wheels, acts the same part towards the tapered portion of the cut rail, as the wing-rail does with respect to the acute-angle of the crossing.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=w:May Sinclair|chapter=Space, Time and Other Consciousnesses|title=The New Idealism|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=[[w:Macmillan Publishers|The Macmillan Company]]|year=1922|section=v|pages=255–256|pageurl=https://archive.org/stream/thenewidealism00sincuoft#page/256/mode/1up/|oclc=558287|passage=If he is standing close beside me I know that our separate axes of vision will meet at an acute angle in the centre of his object, and if we are further apart, at an '''obtuser''' angle.}}
## {{lb|en|geometry|by ellipsis}} {{l|en|obtuse-angled|Obtuse-angled}}, having an obtuse angle.
##* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:Edward Barbeau|Edward J. Barbeau]]|chapter=Probability and Statistics|title=More Fallacies, Flaws, and Flimflam|series=Spectrum Series|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=w:Mathematical Association of America|year=2013|page=128|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=seRaAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA128|isbn=978-0-88385-580-5|passage=Unless <math>A</math> lies in that part of a semi-infinite strip bounded by <math>AB</math> outside a semi-circle of diameter <math>AB</math>, the triangle is '''obtuse''', so that the probability of getting an '''obtuse''' triangle is equal to 1.}}
# [[intellectually|Intellectually]] [[dull]] or [[dim-witted]].
#* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:Robert Anton|[Robert Anton]]]|title=Moriomachia|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A20448.0001.001/1:4?rgn=div1;view=fulltext|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180114134329/https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A20448.0001.001/1:4?rgn=div1;view=fulltext|archivedate=14 January 2018|location=imprinted at London|publisher=By Simon Stafford|year=1613|oclc=800723901|passage=It was a merry time with Carrmen, Watermen, & Porters: for in this Eclipſe, many of them did nothing but drinke, domineere, and ſwagger in Alehouſes; but the often going to and fro of the Pot, made them talke of that, which they had nothing to doe withall, and many times their '''obtuſe''' apprehenſions would be medling with the warres betwixt the great Turke and [[Prester John|Preſter Iohn]], how it was likely to end; {{...}}}}
#* {{RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair|passage=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 latter to leave his service.|21}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|title=The Observer view on triggering article 50: As Britain hurtles towards the precipice, truth and democracy are in short supply [editorial]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/26/observer-editorial-triggering-of-article-50-jeopardises-60-years-of-unparalleled-peace|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830140905/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/26/observer-editorial-triggering-of-article-50-jeopardises-60-years-of-unparalleled-peace|archivedate=30 August 2017|newspaper=w:The Observer|location=London|date=27 March 2017|passage=Be you a Remainer or a Leaver, you would have to be particularly '''obtuse''' not to see that [[w:Theresa May|[Theresa] May]]'s hard Tory Brexit will cost this country and its families more than it can conceivably afford.}}
# Of [[sound#Noun|sound]], etc.: [[deaden#Adjective|deadened]], [[muffled#Adjective|muffled]], [[muted#Adjective|muted]].
#* {{RQ:Lovell Panzooryktologia|chapter=Dynamilogia Pharmaceutica. Or The Whole Use, of All Simples and Compounds Contained in the ''London Dispensatory'', with the Diseases Cured by Them in Alphabetical Order: Together with the Doses and Formes of All Kinds of Remedies.|page=517|passage=The ''ſenſe'' of the inteſtines, if exquiſite, wants a more gentle remedie; and if dull, a ſtronger: Alſo the ſenſes of the inteſtines are perceived by the courſe of diet; for thoſe that feed upon muſtard, or the like biting and more ſharp meat, without trouble, are of a more '''obtuſe''' ſenſe; but thoſe of an exact ſenſe, which preſently perceive the mordacity; and thoſe that are of a mean ſenſe, want a mean doſe.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|title=Art. VI.—''A Universal and Critical Dictionary of the English Language; to which are added Walker’s Key to the Pronunciation of Classical and Scripture Proper Names, much enlarged and improved; and a Pronouncing Vocabulary of Modern Geographical Names.'' By Joseph E. Worcester. Boston: Wilkins, Carter, & Co. Imperial 8vo. pp. 955. [book review]|magazine=[[w:North American Review|The North American Review]]|location=Boston, Mass.|publisher=Published by Otis, Broaders, and Co., No. 154 [[w:Washington Street (Boston)|Washington Street]]|month=January|year=1847|volume=LXIV|issue=CXXXIV|page=198|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=2qtKAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA198|oclc=956094611|passage=Another addition in Mr. [[w:Joseph Emerson Worcester|[Joseph Emerson] Worcester]]'s key to the same letter [''e''] is what he calls the short and '''obtuse''' sound, as in ''her'', ''herd'', ''fern'', ''fervid''. Some of these, also, for the sake of indicating the true sound, [[w:John Walker (lexicographer)|[John] Walker]] was obliged to spell with a different vowel. Thus ''her'' is directed to be pronounced ''hur'', like ''u'' in ''tub''.}}
# {{senseid|en|indirect circuitous}}[[indirect|Indirect]] or [[circuitous]].
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Stephen Jay Gould|chapter=The Fusions of ''Unum'' and the Benefits of ''Pluribus''|title=[[w:The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox|The Hedghog, the Fox, and the Magister’s Pox: Mending the Gap between Science and the Humanities]]|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=w:Harmony Books|year=2003|isbn=978-0-609-60140-2|edition2=Harvard University Press|location2=Cambridge, Mass.; London|publisher2=The Belknap Press of {{w|Harvard University Press}}|year2=2011|section2=section III (A Saga of ''Pluribus'' and ''Unum'': The Power and Meaning of True Consilience)|page2=185|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=XYfLi4hjhTYC&pg=PA185|isbn2=978-0-674-06166-8|passage={{...}} ''{{w|The Conchologist's First Book}}'' intends to do something different by describing ''both'' the shell and the soft parts of each creature together. The claim seems awfully trivial, I admit, and [[w:Edgar Allan Poe|[Edgar Allan] Poe]] does press his point only by the '''obtuse''' route of stressing an expansion of terminology, from the traditional "conchology" (literally the study of shells, as retained in the title) to "malacology" (or the study of the entire organism—for the animals within the hard shells consist almost entirely of soft parts,{{nb...}}).}}

====Synonyms====
* {{sense|intellectually dull}} {{l|en|dense}}, {{l|en|dim}}, {{l|en|dim-witted}}, {{l|en|thick}} {{qualifier|informal}}
* {{sense|of a sound}} {{l|en|deadened}}, {{l|en|muffled}}
* {{sense|of a triangle}} {{l|en|obtuse-angled}}
* {{sense|now chiefly botany, zoology}} {{l|en|blunt}}, {{l|en|dull}}

====Antonyms====
* {{antsense|intellectually dull}} [[bright]], [[intelligent]], [[on the ball]], [[quick off the mark]], [[quick-witted]], [[sharp]], [[smart]]
* {{antsense|deadened, muffled, muted}} {{l|en|clear}}, {{l|en|sharp}}
* {{antsense|of an angle}} {{l|en|acute}}
* {{antsense|of a triangle}} {{l|en|acute}}, {{l|en|acute-angled}}
* {{antsense|now chiefly botany, zoology}} {{l|en|pointed}}, {{l|en|sharp}}

====Derived terms====
{{col4|en
| obtuse horn shell|obtuse-angled triangle|obtuse-angular
|obtuseness
|obtusely
|unobtuse
|subobtuse
|nonobtuse
|obtusity
}}
{{col3|en|title=Compound words and expressions
|obtuse triangle
|obtuse angle,obtuse-angled
|{{vern|obtuse barracuda}} ({{taxlink|Sphyraena obtusata|species}})
|{{vern|obtuse demoulia}} ({{taxlink|Demoulia obtusata|species}})
|obtuse margin
|{{vern|obtuse sedge}} ({{taxlink|Carex obtusata|species}})
|{{vern|obtuse starwort}} ({{taxlink|Stellaria obtusa|species}})
|{{vern|obtuse wattle}} ({{taxlink|Acacia obtusata|species}})
}}

====Related terms====
{{prefixsee|en|ob-}}
{{rootsee|en|ine|(s)tewd}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|not sharp, pointed, or acute in form}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|тъп}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|tupý}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|malakra}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|tylppä}}, {{t+|fi|tylsä}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|hāpūpū}}
* Ottoman Turkish: {{t|ota|كور|tr=kör}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|rozwarty}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|embotado}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|tupý}}
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{{trans-top|botany, zoology: blunt}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|բութ}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|bot}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|stumpa}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|tylppä}}
* German: {{t+|de|stumpf}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|αμβλύς}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|тап}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|obtuso}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|тупо́й}}, {{t+|ru|притуплённый}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|obtuso}}, {{t+|es|romo}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|trubbig}}, {{t+|sv|slö}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|geometry: larger than 90° but less than 180°}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|բութ}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|тупы́}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|тъп}}
* Burmese: {{t+|my|ကျယ်}}
* Catalan: {{t|ca|obtús}}
* Central Melanau: {{t|mel|langak}}, {{t|mel|tangak}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|鈍|tr=dùn}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|tupý}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|obtuza}}
* Estonian: {{t+|et|nüri}}, {{t|et|tömp}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|tylppä}}
* French: {{t+|fr|obtus}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|obtuso}}
* German: {{t+|de|stumpf}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|αμβλύς}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|tompa}}
* Iban: {{t|iba|chakah}}
* Ingrian: {{t|izh|tyltsä}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|鈍角|tr=donkaku no|alt=鈍角の}}
* Khmer: {{t+|km|ទាល}}
* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|bukas}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|тап}}
* Malay: {{t|ms|cakah}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|hāpūpū}}
* Mongolian: {{t+|mn|мохоо}}
* Navajo: {{t|nv|ałhiʼdiidzo}}
* Norwegian: {{t+|no|stump}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|rozwarty}}, {{t+|pl|tępy}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|obtuso}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|obtuz}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|тупо́й}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|tupý}}
* Slovene: {{t|sl|tup}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|obtuso}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|trubbig}}
* Tagalog: {{t+|tl|bika}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|тупи́й}}
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{{trans-see|having an obtuse angle|obtuse-angled}}

{{trans-top|intellectually dull}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|բութ}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|тъп}}
* Catalan: {{t|ca|obtús}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|tupý}}, {{t+|cs|omezený}}, {{t|cs|zabedněný}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|afgestompt}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|stulta}}, {{t|eo|malsprita}}
* Estonian: {{t|et|juhm}}, {{t|et|tülp}}, {{t|et|loid}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|hidasjärkinen}}, {{t+|fi|hidasälyinen}}
* French: {{t+|fr|obtus}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|parvo}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|ჩლუნგი}}, {{t|ka|ყეყეჩი}}, {{t|ka|შტერი}}
* German: {{t+|de|begriffsstutzig}}, {{t+|de|beschränkt}}, {{t+|de|stumpf}}, {{t+|de|schwerfällig}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|κουτός}}, {{t+|el|αμβλύνους}}
* Icelandic: {{t+|is|sljór}}, {{t+|is|tregur}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|ottuso}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|тап}}, {{t|mk|глуп}}, {{t|mk|глупав}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|dum}}, {{t|nb|sløv}}, {{t+|nb|treg}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|obtuso}}, {{t+|pt|bronco}}, {{t+|pt|parvo}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|obtuz}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|тупо́й}}, {{t+|ru|недалёкий}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|tupý}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|obtuso}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|trög}}, {{t+|sv|slö}}, {{t+|sv|tjockskallig}}
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{{trans-top|deadened, muffled, muted}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|gesmoord}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|dampsona}}, {{t|eo|dampata}}
* Estonian: {{t|et|tuhm}}, {{t|et|tumm}}, {{t|et|sumbe}}, {{t|et|summutatud}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|vaimea}}, {{t|fi|vaimennettu}}
* French: {{t+|fr|sourd}}
* German: {{t+|de|unterdrückt}}, {{t+|de|gedämpft}}, {{t+|de|abgeschwächt}}, {{t+|de|abgestumpft}}, {{t+|de|betäubt}}, {{t+|de|abgemildert}}, {{t+|de|gefühllos}}
* Icelandic: {{t+|is|daufur}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|abafado}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|atenuat}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|приглушённый}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|dov}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top-also|indirect or circuitous|indirect|circuitous}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|malrekta}}
* Estonian: {{t|et|kaudne}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|epäsuora}}
* German: {{t+|de|indirekt}}, {{t+|de|umständlich}}, {{t+|de|weitschweifig}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Verb===
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|transitive|obsolete}} To [[dull#Verb|dull]] or [[reduce]] an [[emotion]] or a [[physical]] [[state#Noun|state]].
#* {{RQ:Cotgrave Dictionarie|entry=Fouler|sig=Qq ij|verso=1|page=455|column=2|passage={{m|fr|fouler|Fouler}}. To tread, ſtampe, or trample on; to bruiſe, or cruſh, by ſtamping; hurt, or '''obtuſe''', by treading on; {{...}}}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|title=[Miscellaneous.] Coca|journal=The United States Journal of Homœopathy|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=C. T. Hurlburt, No. 437 Broome Street|month=August|year=1861|volume=II|page=549|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=lDKgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA549|oclc=64159880|passage=The general effect of even a weak infusion of ''coca'' leaves is a pleasant irritability and sleeplessness. A stronger infusion keeps hunger away, prevents loss of breath in ascending mountains, dilates the pupil, and '''obtuses''' the sensibility to the air.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=George M. Kober|title=Shall Alcohol be Considered as a Food?|editors=Landon B. Edwards; Charles M. Edwards|journal=Virginia Medical Semi-monthly (Richmond)|location=Richmond, Va.|publisher=J. W. Fergusson & Son, printers [for the Medical Society of Virginia]|date=13 July 1900|year_published=1901|volume=V|issue=7 (103 overall)|page=205|pageurl=https://archive.org/stream/virginiamedicals5190unse#page/205/mode/1up|column=1|oclc=1769197|passage=[[w:Gustav von Bunge|[Gustav von] Bunge]] {{...}} claims that its [alcohol's] primary action is that of a depressant, and that its apparent good effects are simply due to the '''obtusing''' influence upon physical and mental suffering. But this is scarcely a correct assumption, as there are individuals in whom the smallest doses produce palpitation of the heart, throbbing of the carotids, and great mental activity. He also claims that alcohol does not produce renewed vigor in tired individuals, but simply '''obtuses''' this feeling of exhaustion.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|editor=Henry Goddard Leach|journal=The American-Scandinavian Review|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=w:The American-Scandinavian Foundation|year=1916|volume=4|page=51|issn=0003-0910|oclc=6460493|passage=The American avidity for "action" has evidently '''obtused''' the perceptions of habitual theatre-goers to all nuances of feeling, and therefore, the harmless romancings of the elderly estranged couple, Mr. and Mrs. Arvik, are interpreted as covering unspeakable iniquities that only exist in the minds of the critics.}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|to dull or reduce an emotion or a physical state}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|затъпявам}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|dampi|s}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|otupiť}}, {{t|sk|otupovať}}
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===Further reading===
* {{pedia|obtuse|obtuse (disambiguation)}}
* {{R:Century 1911}}
* {{R:Webster 1913}}
* {{R:OneLook}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=beostu|buteos}}

==French==

===Pronunciation===
* {{fr-IPA|optuse}}
* {{audio|fr|Fr-Paris--obtuse.ogg|a=Paris}}

===Adjective===
{{head|fr|adjective form}}

# {{feminine singular of|fr|obtus}}

===Anagrams===
* {{l|fr|boutes}}

==Latin==

===Adjective===
{{head|la|adjective form|head=obtūse}}

# {{inflection of|la|obtūsus||voc|m|s}}

===References===
* {{R:L&S}}
* {{R:Gaffiot}}