Blunt
Bible Usage:
- blunt used once.
- Bible Reference: Ecclesiastes 10:10
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H6949 Used 1 time
BLUNT, adjective [from the root of Gr.to dull.]
1. Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.
2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment.
3. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
4. Hard to penetrate. [Unusual.]
BLUNT, verb transitive To dull the edge or point, by making it thicker.
1. To repress or weaken any appetite, desire or power of the mind; to impair the force of any passion which affects the mind, or of any evil or good which affects the body; as, to blunt the edge of love, of pain, or of suffering.
Your ceaseless endeavors will be exerted to blunt the stings of pain.
BLUNT'ED, participle passive Made dull; weakened; impaired; repressed.
BLUNT'ING, participle present tense Making dull; repressing; impairing.
BLUNT'ING, noun Restraint.
BLUNT'LY, adverb IN a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.
BLUNT'NESS, noun Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; want of sharpness.
1. Coarseness of address; roughness of manners, rude sincerity or plainness.
BLUNT'WITTED, adjective [blunt and wit.] Dull; stupid.