Blunt

Expressions using "blunt": be blunt ♦ become blunt ♦ blunt answer ♦ blunt edge ♦ blunt file ♦ blunt gorget ♦ blunt instrument ♦ blunt reply ♦ blunt talk ♦ blunt tool ♦ blunt words ♦ get blunt ♦ make blunt. Additional references.

Beginning with "blunt": blunt-cornered, blunt-cutting, blunt-end, blunt-ended, blunt-faced, blunt-featured, blunt-fingered, blunt-leaf heath, blunt-looking, blunt-nosed, Blunt-nosed shiner, blunt-speaking, blunt-spoken, blunt-talking, blunt-tipped, Blunt-witted.

Ending with "blunt": mi-blunt.

Afrikaans

afstomp (become dull, dull). (various references)

Albanian

topit (disconcert, dull, stupefy), topis (disconcert, stupefy), pa majë (obtuse), mpij (benumb, cramp, drowse, dull, numb, stupefy), i vonuar (behindhand, belated, delayed, detained, dilatory, late, latecomer, outstanding, overdue, slow, tardy), i topitur (dopey, dopy, dull, listless, obtuse, torpid, unpointed), i pamprehur (unsharpened), i hapur (ajar, champaign, direct, exposed, forthright, Frank, free, heart-to-heart, honest, hospitable, low, naked, open, open-hearted, overground, overt, pervious, plain, public, straightforward, unclosed, uncovered). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فظ (abrupt, boor, boorish, brusque, brutish, burly, chuffy, churlish, clownish, coarse, country, crude, crusty, curt, discourteous, earthy, grievous, gross, gruff, hairy, harsh, hoarse, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, low, mannerless, obdurate, off hand, plug ugly, precipitous, rough, rough and ready, rude, ruffianly, rugged, rustic, savage, scathe, serious, shaggy, short, sour, surly, uncivil, uncouth, unkind, unmannerly, unprintable), ‏كليل (dull), ‏متبلد الذهن (brainless, purblind, thick-headed, thick-witted), ‏مثلم (furrowed, toothed), ‏جلف (boorish, coarse, crude, gruff, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, rough, roughneck, rude, rude fellow, scuff, uncivil, uncouth), ‏جعله بليدا, ‏ثلم (chase, furrow, groove, nick, notch). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тъп (asinine, bovine, cloddish, crass, dense, dim, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dull, dumb, gross, hollow, impenetrable, lumpish, muddle-headed, obtuse, opaque, puddingy, purblind, slow, sodden, stupid, thick, thick-headed, thick-witted, torpid, unpointed, wooden-headed), глупав (anserine, asinine, blackhearted, blithering, blockish, brainless, cockscomb, crass, daft, dense, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dozy, fat, fatuous, flat-footed, fool, foolish, footless, footling, goofy, hebetate, inane, inept, irrational, lame brain, lumpish, lunatic, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, off one's nut, piffling, puddingy, puerile, purblind, sappy, senseless, silly, simple, slow witted, stockish, stupid, thick, thick-skulled, thick-witted, tomfool, trumpery, unintelligent, unwise, vacant, vacuous, whacked, witless, wooden-headed), окровен, безцеремонен (abrupt, brusque, gay, offhand, offhanded, summary, unceremonious), безкомпромисен (intransigent, straight out, thoroughgoing, uncompromising), прям (above board, bluff, bluffy, candid, direct, downright, forthright, free-spoken, honest, open, outright, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, round, sincere, straight out, straightaway, straightforward, unaffected, unreserved), похабявам (consume, injure, spoil, waste), похабен (gone to waste, old, shabby, worn), изтъпявам, изтъпен. (various references)

Chinese 

骾 (fish bones, unyielding), 鯁 (fish bones, unyielding), 鈍 (stupid), 蠢 (sluggish, stupid, to wiggle), 直言 (Communicative), 直截了當 (plain-talking, straightforward), 禿 (bald), 惷 (stupid, to wiggle), 不客氣 (don't mention it, impolite, rude, you're welcome), 坦率 (frank, open). (various references)

Czech

ztupit, tupý (brutish, cloddish, dense, dozy, dull, empty headed, indocile, mindful, obtuse, pointless, stolid, stupid, thickheaded, torpid, vacant, vacuous), otupit (deaden, stupefy), otevřený (above board, avowed, barefaced, direct, Frank, free-spoken, honest, open, open-hearted, outspoken, overt, plainspoken, raw, straightforward, unclosed, undone, unreserved), oslabit (debilitate, disable, disenable, emasculate, enfeeble, impair, weaken), neomalený (abrasive, churlish, cool, impertinent, unsuitable), neořezaný. (various references)

Danish

sløv (dull, obtuse). (various references)

Dutch

stomp (dull, obtuse), bot (abrupt, addled, bone, crude, foolish, raw, rough, stupid, unrefined, unwrought). (various references)

Esperanto

senpinta, malakrigi, malakra. (various references)

Faeroese

óhvassur. (various references)

Farsi 

کندکردن (Clog, Dull, Letup, Rebate, Sheath, Sheathe, Slacken), کند (Ballast, Dilatory, Dull, Haunt, Heavy, Late, Lazy, Leaden, Slack, Slow, Sluggish, Tardy, Unapt, Unready), رک (Frank, Outspoken, Stark, Straight, Straightforward), دارای لبه ضخیم , بی پرده (Frank, Pert, Straight, Straightforward), بی نوک (Topless). (various references)

Finnish

tylsä (dull, dull-edged, inert, obtuse), tylppä (dull, obtuse). (various references)

French

qui ne coupe plus, mal taillé, épointer, émousser, émoussé, a grande resistance aerodynamique. (various references)

Frisian

stomp. (various references)

German

stumpf (bluntly, dull, dulled, flat, lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless, masculine, obtuse, pointless, snub, stolid, stolidly, stub, stump, stupid, toneless, truncated, turned-up), abstumpfen (become dulled, deaden, dull), sehr deutlich. (various references)

Greek 

μονοκόμματος, αμβλώνω (abort), αμβλύσ (dull, flat, obtuse, pointless), αμβλύνω (attenuate, dull, soft pedal), αμβλύς, απότομοσ (abrupt, bluff, brusque, curt, jerky, offhand, plump, rugged, steep), απότομος (abrupt, brusque, sheer, steep, steep (hill)). (various references)

Hebrew 

מוקהה (dull, notched), לקהות (be faint, be set on edge), להקהות (deaden, dull), קהה (dull, obtuse, set on edge, sour), גלוי לב (bluff, candid, candidness, candour, directness, expansive, frankness, openhearted, outspoken, sincerity, straightforward, straightforwardness, unreserved). (various references)

Hungarian

tompa (dim, dull, have a blunt edge, hollow, lustreless, matt, muffled, obscure, obtuse, pastel shades, thick-headed). (various references)

Indonesian

buntung (blunted, lopped off, polled, truncated), berterus-terang (frankly), tumpul (dull, obtuse (of angles), stupid), kasar (abrupt, abusive, artless, boorish, broad, brutal, brutish, crass, crude, curt, disrespectful, gruff, menial, raw, rude, unkind, vulgar), guntung (flat, short). (various references)

Italian

spuntato (dull, obtuse), smussato (dull, obtuse). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

露骨 (broad, conspicuous, frank, open, outspoken, plain, suggestive). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そっけない (cold, curt, short), ぶっきらぼう (brusque, curt), ろこつ (broad, conspicuous, frank, open, outspoken, plain, suggestive). (various references)

Korean 

무뚝뚝한 (Glum). (various references)

Manx

neuvirragh, moal-foyragh, moalaghey (disable), goaill yn foyr jeh, broillit (blunted, burred, riveted, turned, turned as metal), broilley (burr, hack, hammer down, turn, turn as edge of tool, turn over), angheyre. (various references)

Norwegian

sløv (dull, languid). (various references)

Papiamen

bòt, stòmpi. (various references)

Pig Latin

untblay.(various references)

Polish

tepy. (various references)

Portuguese

mitigar (alleviate, assuage, bate, lighten, mitigate, palliate, quench, relieve, salve, sate, slake, soften, soothe), embotar (dull, notch, obtund, rebate). (various references)

Romanian

tocit (chippy, dull, edgeless, hackneyed, overwrought, worn out). (various references)

Russian 

тупой (blockish, dense, dim witted, dim-witted, doltish, dug, dull, fat-witted, goofy, gormless, heavy, logy, muddle-headed, obtuse, pig-headed, po-faced, pointless, puddingy, purblind, slow witted, slow-witted, stolid, stupid, thick, timberheaded, timber-headed, wooden-headed). (various references)

Scottish

maol (bald, bare, cape, edgeless, hornless, pointless, polled, promontory). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zatupiti (dull), tup (blank, cloddish, dull, hebetate, obtuse, stolid), otvoren (above board, candid, downright, forthright, heart-to-heart, open, open-faced, openhearted, outdoor, outgoing, out-of-door, outspoken, overt, plain, plainspoken, sightly, through, unclosed, undisguised), nabusit (haughtly, haughty, surly), iskren (above board, candid, childlike, downright, fair dealing, forthright, frank, free-spoken, genuine, heartfelt, heart-to-heart, open, open minded, openhearted, outspoken, sincere, single-hearted, straight, straightforward). (various references)

Spanish

obtuso (dull, obtuse), embotado (dull, obtuse, thickheaded), despuntar (to emerge), arromar. (various references)

Sranan

dede (dead, die, expire, late, pass away). (various references)

Swedish

tvär (abrupt, brusque, gnarled, gnarly, refractory, sharp, square, steep, sudden, sullen), trubbig (blunted, obtuse, pointless, retrousse), burdus (abrupt, abruptly, bluff, brusque, slapdash), avtrubba. (various references)

Thai

อวัยวะเพศหญิง ((Sir) Anthony Blunt, berk, fanny, fud, Sir Anthony Blunt). (various references)

Turkish

yassí, patavatsız (gauche, harum scarum, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, indiscreet, out of turn, plainspoken, plump, politically incorrect, tactless, thoughtless, unadvised, without tact), lâfını esirgemeyen, kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, hew, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip, nip off, occlude, pare, poll, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up), köreltmek (atrophy, damp, damp down, dampen, dull, rust), körelmiş (atrophied, rusty), kör (blind, blind as a bat, disused, dull, mole-eyed, not sharp, obtuse, sightless, stone blind, unseeing, unsighted), duygusuz (apathetic, apathetical, as cold as charity, bloodless, callous, coldhearted, conscience-proof, devoid of feelings, dull, frigid, hard-hearted, impassible, insensate, insensitive, marble, matter of fact, numb, obtuse, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, senseless, soulless, steel, stolid, stony, unemotional, unfeeling, unmoved), anlayışsız (blind, dim, inconsiderate, insensitive, purblind, undiscerning, unsympathetic), açık sözlü (bluff, expansive, explicit, forthcoming, Frank, free-spoken, honest, ingenuous, outspoken, plain spoken, plainspoken, plump, straight out, unreserved). (various references)

Turkmen 

tьnt (obtuse, stupid), kьteltmek (dull), kьtek (dull), dьrtme gьrsak. (various references)

Ukrainian

тупий (asleep, bat-eyed, blockish, dense, dim witted, doughy, dull, logy, obtuse, opaque, oscitant, pointless, slow witted, wooden, wooden-headed), штопальна голка (darning needle), грубуватий (bluffy, clownish, gauche, gruff, inelegant, rough and ready), гроші (balsam, bean, brass, cash, charm, chink, clink, dibs, dime, dough, l.s.d., money, moo, necessary, needful, ocher, ochre, oil, oof, pelf, posh, scads, shekels, sugar, the stuff, treasure, wherewithal), нетямущий (bad, ignorant, indocile, non-teachable, obtuse, slow), затупляти, бовдур (beef-head, beetle-head, bufflehead, chump, doodle, dumdum, goon, leather-head, noodle, wooden-head), притуплятися, притуплений (benumbed). (various references)

Vietnamese 

không giữ ý tứ; thẳng thừng. (various references)

Welsh

taeog (boor, boorish, churl, churlish), pylu (dull), pw+l (blear, dim, dull, obtuse), plaen (clear, plain, plane), di-fin. (various references)

obtusi, plumbeam, retunsae, retunsum. (various references)

plomp. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "blunt": blunted, blunter, bluntest, blunting, bluntly, bluntness, bluntnesses, blunts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Blunt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: balint, Balun, baunt, blant, Blenyth, blint, bluet, bluett, blumt, blun, bluot, Blut, Bluth, Bluto, bount, glunt, Lbut. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bunt, lunt.

-2 letters: bun, but, nub, nut, tub, tun.

-3 letters: nu, un, ut.

+1 letter: blunts, unbelt, unbolt.

+2 letters: abluent, blunted, blunter, bluntly, botulin, butanol, butling, inbuilt, sunbelt, tubulin, tunable, tunably, unbelts, unblest, unbolts, unbuilt.

+3 letters: abluents, ablution, abutilon, ambulant, betelnut, bluntest, blunting, blurting, botulins, bulletin, buntline, bustline, bustling, butanols, butylene, huntable, jubilant, nubility, subtilin, sunbelts, tribunal, tubulins, tumbling, tuneable, tuneably, turbinal, turnable, unbelted, unbolted, unstable, unstably, unsubtle, unsubtly.