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From Middle English blunt, blont, from Old English *blunt, probably of North Germanic origin, possibly related to Old Norse blunda (“to doze”) (> Icelandic blunda, Swedish blunda, Danish blunde).

blunt (comparative blunter, superlative bluntest)

  1. Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
  2. (derogatory) Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
  3. (derogatory) Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting in the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
    I was taken aback by the blunt admission that he had never liked my company.
  4. Hard to impress or penetrate.
  5. Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.

having a thick edge or point, not sharp — see also dull

dull in understanding; slow of discernment

abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious

Translations to be checked

blunt (countable and uncountable, plural blunts)

  1. A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
  2. A short needle with a strong point.
  3. (smoking, slang, US) A marijuana cigar.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana cigarette
  4. (UK, slang, archaic, uncountable) Money.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:money
  5. A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.

cigar filled with marijuana

From Middle English blunten, blonten, from the adjective (see above).

blunt (third-person singular simple present blunts, present participle blunting, simple past and past participle blunted)

  1. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
  2. (figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
    It blunted my appetite.
    My feeling towards her have been blunted.
    • 2011 January 12, Saj Chowdhury, “Liverpool 2 - 1 Liverpool”, in BBC‎[1]:
      That settled the Merseysiders for a short while but it did not blunt the home side's spirit.
    • 2022 August 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail strikes deadlock”, in RAIL, number 964, page 3:
      I'm not saying that thousands of folk are not being inconvenienced, because they most certainly are, but the impact of strikes on government has been blunted.

to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker

to repress or weaken

From Frankish *blund, from Proto-Germanic *blundaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-.

blunt m (oblique and nominative feminine singular blunde)

  1. alternative form of blont

Unadapted borrowing from English blunt.

blunt m animal

  1. (slang) alternative spelling of blant

Unadapted borrowing from English blunt.

blunt m (plural blunts)

  1. blunt (a marijuana cigar)

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.