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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