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单词 blunt
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bluntadjective

uk/blʌnt/us/blʌnt/

blunt adjective (NOT SHARP)

C2 A blunt pencil, knife, etc. is not sharp and therefore not able to write, cut, etc. well.

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Sharp and blunt

  • hone
  • jaggy
  • keen
  • point
  • pointed
  • pointy
  • prickly
  • razor-sharp
  • sharp
  • sharpen
  • sharply
  • spike
  • spiked
  • spiky
  • spiny
  • whet

blunt adjective (RUDE)

C2 saying what you think without trying to be polite or considering other people's feelings:

I'll be blunt - that last piece of work you did was terrible.

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Blunt and direct in speech & behaviour

  • abrupt
  • baldly
  • bluntly
  • brusque
  • brutal
  • call a spade a spade idiom
  • forward
  • frank
  • in the raw idiom
  • man-to-man
  • mince
  • not mince (your) words idiom
  • not pull any/your punches idiom
  • raw
  • shoot from the hip idiom
  • straight
  • term
  • terse
  • unvarnished
  • woman-to-woman

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bluntness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈblʌnt.nəs/us/ˈblʌnt.nəs/

bluntverb [ T ]

uk/blʌnt/us/blʌnt/

to make something less sharp

to make a feeling less strong:

My recent bad experience has blunted my enthusiasm for travel.

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Sharp and blunt

  • hone
  • jaggy
  • keen
  • point
  • pointed
  • pointy
  • prickly
  • razor-sharp
  • sharp
  • sharpen
  • sharply
  • spike
  • spiked
  • spiky
  • spiny
  • whet

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Becoming and making less strong

bluntnoun [ C ]

/blʌnt//blʌnt/

slang a large cigarette or cigar containing the drug cannabis

Examples

  • Kids are coming across blunts, pills, other illegal drugs and booze in their classrooms, lockers, bathrooms and playfields.
  • Smoking blunts is becoming a common practice with teenagers.
  • They would just sit for hours at a time, smoke as many blunts as their system could handle.
  • Officers observed two partially smoked marijuana blunts in the room.
  • "I tell students that joints, cigars and blunts have seven times more tar than cigarettes," he said.

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Specific types of drug

  • amyl nitrite
  • antiretroviral
  • aphrodisiac
  • cisplatin
  • coke
  • corticosteroid
  • crystal meth
  • designer drug
  • downer
  • hash
  • junk
  • marijuana
  • mickey
  • mind-altering
  • narcotic
  • non-addictive
  • pep pill
  • popper
  • stimulant
  • weed

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