What are the opposite words for blunt?
Blunt is an adjective that is often used to describe an object or a person that lacks sharpness or dullness. However, there are many antonyms, or opposite words, that can be used to describe something that is sharp, keen, or pointed. Some possible antonyms for blunt include sharp, pointed, keen, incisive, precise, cutting, penetrating, acute, and honed. These words can be used to describe the sharpness of a knife, the clarity of an argument, or the wit of a conversation. By using antonyms to contrast the meaning of blunt, writers can more accurately convey their intended message and create more dynamic texts.
- contact
- change
-
edge
- nose out,
- rimmed,
- slip by,
- squeeze by,
- strop,
- Filed,
- Fringing,
- Inched,
- Inching,
- Margined,
- Rimming,
- Wormed,
- Worming,
- Stropped,
- Stropping,
- WORMS,
- margining,
- strops,
- in filtrate,
- in filtrated,
- in-filtrate,
- in-filtrates,
- nosed out,
- noses out,
- nosing out,
- out line,
- out lined,
- out lines,
- out lining,
- out-line,
- out-lined,
- out-lines,
- out-lining,
- slip past,
- slipped by,
- slipped past,
- slipping by,
- slipping past,
- slips by,
- slipt by,
- slipt past,
- squeeze past,
- squeezed by,
- squeezes by,
- squeezes past,
- squeezing by,
- sur rounded,
- sur rounding,
- sur-rounded,
- sur-rounding.
-
sharpen
- acuminate,
- Sharped,
- Sharping,
- SHARPS,
- made acute,
- made sharp,
- make acute,
- make sharp,
- makes acute,
- makes sharp,
- making acute,
- making sharp,
- put an edge on,
- put edge on,
- put point on,
- puts a point on,
- puts an edge on,
- puts edge on,
- puts point on,
- putting a point on,
- putting an edge on,
- putting edge on,
- putting point on.
- whet
-
kindle
- bestir,
- burn up,
- fire up,
- Bestirred,
- Bestirring,
- bestirs,
- burned up,
- keyed up,
- in flames,
- be stir,
- be stirred,
- be stirring,
- be stirs,
- be-stir,
- be-stirred,
- be-stirring,
- be-stirs,
- burning up,
- burns up,
- burnt up,
- ex asperate,
- ex asperates,
- ex asperating,
- ex-asperate,
- ex-asperated,
- ex-asperates,
- ex-asperating,
- fires up,
- firing up,
- gat smoking,
- get smoking,
- gets smoking,
- getting smoking,
- got smoking,
- gotten smoking,
- in duce,
- in duces,
- in flame,
- in flamed,
- in flaming,
- in spire,
- in spired,
- in spires,
- in spiring,
- in-duce,
- in-duces,
- in-flame,
- in-flamed,
- in-flames,
- in-spire,
- in-spired,
- in-spires,
- in-spiring,
- key up,
- keying up,
- keys up.
- make dull
-
border, trim
- edge.
- excite, incite
- make knifelike
-
make sharp
- whet.
- deep
- painful
- pungent
-
sharp
- acuate,
- apical,
- briery,
- double-edged,
- horned,
- in style,
- needlelike,
- sharp,
- spiky,
- splintery,
- stabbing,
- tined,
- vinegary,
- Needle-pointed,
- first class,
- spikiest,
- spikier,
- strong-smelling,
- firstclass,
- sharp-edged,
- brierier,
- brieriest,
- de finite,
- de-finite,
- double edged,
- doubleedged,
- flyest,
- ground fine,
- having smarts,
- keen edged,
- keen-edged,
- keenedged,
- knife edged,
- knife-edged,
- knifeedged,
- more acuate,
- more apical,
- more double edged,
- more double-edged,
- more doubleedged,
- more drilling,
- more horned,
- more keen edged,
- more keen-edged,
- more keenedged,
- more knife edged,
- more knife-edged,
- more knifeedged,
- more needle pointed,
- more needle-pointed,
- more needlelike,
- more needlepointed,
- more paralyzing,
- more sharp edged,
- more sharp-edged,
- more sharpedged,
- more splintery,
- more strong smelling,
- more strong-smelling,
- more suffocating,
- more tapered,
- more tined,
- more tipped,
- more vinegary,
- more whetted,
- most acuate,
- most apical,
- most double edged,
- most double-edged,
- most doubleedged,
- most drilling,
- most horned,
- most keen edged,
- most keen-edged,
- most keenedged,
- most knife edged,
- most knife-edged,
- most knifeedged,
- most needle pointed,
- most needle-pointed,
- most needlelike,
- most needlepointed,
- most sharp edged,
- most sharp-edged,
- most sharpedged,
- most splintery,
- most strong smelling,
- most strong-smelling,
- most suffocating,
- most tapered,
- most tined,
- most tipped,
- most vinegary,
- most whetted,
- needle pointed,
- needlepointed,
- sharp edged,
- sharpedged,
- smart as a tack,
- smart as tack,
- strong smelling,
- two faced,
- twofaced,
- un ethical,
- un gracious,
- un scrupulous,
- un-ceremonious,
- un-ethical,
- un-gracious,
- un-scrupulous,
- under hand,
- under-hand.
-
enthusiastic
- keen.
- cunning
- intelligent
- high
-
cold
- algid,
- brumal,
- frore,
- hiemal,
- icebox,
- iced,
- hawkish,
- be numbed,
- be-numbed,
- below freezing,
- below zero,
- frorer,
- frorest,
- have goose bumps,
- more blasting,
- more brumal,
- more chilled,
- more gelid,
- more hawkish,
- more hiemal,
- more nipping,
- more numbed,
- more siberian,
- most algid,
- most blasting,
- most brumal,
- most chilled,
- most gelid,
- most hawkish,
- most hiemal,
- most hyperborean,
- most icebox,
- most iced,
- most nipping,
- most numbed,
- most numbing,
- most siberian,
- one dog night,
- one-dog night,
- onedog night,
- rimier,
- rimiest,
- sleetier,
- sleetiest,
- two dog night,
- two-dog night,
- twodog night.
- conical
-
acute
- needle-shaped,
- Acuminous,
- Piked,
- dis criminating,
- dis-criminating,
- more acuminous,
- more acute,
- more needle shaped,
- more needle-shaped,
- more needleshaped,
- more piked,
- more racking,
- more sharpened,
- most acuminous,
- most needle shaped,
- most needle-shaped,
- most needleshaped,
- most piked,
- most racking,
- most sharpened,
- most shooting,
- needle shaped,
- needleshaped,
- over powering,
- over whelming,
- over-powering,
- over-whelming,
- quick witted,
- quickwitted.
- devious
- fine
- observant
- perceptive
- piping
-
pointed
- in a nutshell,
- on the button,
- pronged,
- sagittal,
- sagittate,
- sharp-cornered,
- calling a spade a spade,
- arrowlike,
- boiled down,
- calling a spade spade,
- calling spade a spade,
- calling spade spade,
- in nutshell,
- in sinuating,
- in-sinuating,
- laid on the line,
- laid the line,
- more arrowlike,
- more pronged,
- more right on,
- more right-on,
- more righton,
- more sagittal,
- more sagittate,
- more sharp cornered,
- more sharp-cornered,
- more sharpcornered,
- more short-and-sweet,
- most arrowlike,
- most pronged,
- most right on,
- most right-on,
- most righton,
- most sagittal,
- most sagittate,
- most sharp cornered,
- most sharp-cornered,
- most sharpcornered,
- most short and sweet,
- on button,
- right it,
- right to it,
- right-on,
- righton,
- sharp cornered,
- sharpcornered,
- short-and-sweet.
-
quick
- smart as a whip,
- nimble-witted,
- all there,
- more nimble witted,
- more nimble-witted,
- more nimblewitted,
- most nimble witted,
- most nimble-witted,
- most nimblewitted,
- nimble witted,
- quick draw,
- quick on draw,
- quick on the draw,
- quick on the trigger,
- quick on the uptake,
- quick on trigger,
- quick on uptake,
- quick the draw,
- quick the trigger,
- quick the uptake,
- quick trigger,
- quick uptake,
- smart as whip.
- ready
- savvy
- stinging
- straightforward
- sycophantic
- trenchant
- wise
- bitter
- cutting
-
intense
- all-consuming,
- all consuming,
- allconsuming,
- extra ordinary,
- extra-ordinary,
- in tense,
- in tenser,
- in tensive,
- in-tense,
- in-tenser,
- in-tensest,
- in-tensive,
- more all consuming,
- more all-consuming,
- more allconsuming,
- more intensified,
- most all consuming,
- most allconsuming,
- most intensified,
- pro found,
- pro founder,
- pro-found,
- pro-founder,
- un due,
- un duest,
- un-due,
- un-duer,
- un-duest.
-
keen
- razor-sharp,
- Unblunted,
- dying to,
- fond of,
- de voted,
- de-voted,
- in tent,
- more appetent,
- more edged,
- more einstein,
- more honed,
- more razor sharp,
- more razor-sharp,
- more razorsharp,
- more unblunted,
- most appetent,
- most edged,
- most einstein,
- most honed,
- most razor sharp,
- most razor-sharp,
- most razorsharp,
- most unblunted,
- nobody fool,
- nobodys fool,
- razor sharp,
- razorsharp,
- sharp as a tack,
- sharp as tack,
- un blunted,
- un-blunted,
- whizer,
- whizest.
-
penetrating
- Penetrant,
- passing through,
- going through,
- in filtrating,
- in-filtrating,
- in-goinger,
- more carrying,
- more entering,
- more forcing,
- more infiltrating,
- more penetrant,
- more permeating,
- more puncturing,
- most carrying,
- most entering,
- most forcing,
- most infiltrating,
- most penetrant,
- most permeating,
- most puncturing,
- sharp witted,
- sharpwitted.
- poignant
- shrewd
- smart
- tapering
- unctuous
- deeply perceptive
- painful, distressing
- not sharp
-
chilly, freezing
- cold.
- nasty, hateful
-
scheming, devious
- deep.
- insightful
-
discriminating, exact
- fine.
- forceful, severe; passionate
- stinging, harsh
- affecting, painful
- gnawing
- having a sharp end or part
- highly flavored
- skillful, intelligent
- clever, intelligent
- sarcastic, scathing
-
intelligent, reasonable
- wise.
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Other relevant words
- liven,
- liven up,
- whet,
- clarified,
- bland,
- conditional,
- considerate,
- courteous,
- diplomatic,
- gallant,
- genial,
- jabbing,
- jagged,
- loquacious,
- mealymouthed,
- needlelike,
- piercing,
- politic,
- prickly,
- reserved,
- scratching,
- smooth,
- spiked,
- spikelike,
- spiky,
- spiny,
- stabbing,
- suave,
- tactful,
- talkative,
- urbane,
- voluble,
- Lacerating.
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
most elbow-to-elbow
- Antonyms:
- deserted, empty, imprecise.
