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单词 obtuse
释义
obtuseob‧tuse /əbˈtjuːs $ -ˈtuːs/ adjective formal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINobtuse
Origin:
1500-1600 Latin obtusus ‘blunt’, from obtundere ‘to beat against, make blunt’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Maybe I'm being obtuse, but I don't understand what you're so upset about.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Even the deeply obtuse can be seized by kamikaze zeal.
  • He is a renowned and honourable man, but with regard to this matter he is either being naive or obtuse.
  • Heather tried to be as obtuse as she could.
  • How today's youngsters are obtuse!
  • The oral shield is rhombic but often with an obtuse proximal angle and a convex distal edge.
  • The oral shields is a rounded pentagonal with an obtuse or slightly rounded proximal angle.
  • The ventral arm plates are wider than long, pentagonal with an obtuse proximal angle and a slightly convex distal edge.
slow to understand things, in a way that is annoying:  ‘But why?’ said Charles, being deliberately obtuse.obtuseness noun [uncountable]
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