Definition for Blunt:

• make dull or blunt, as of sharp edges or knives' blades

Synonyms for Blunt:

• adj.

  •artless (adjective)
  • straightforward,
  • sincere,
  • Unbeguiling,
  • overt,
  • open,
  • undisguised,
  • honest,
  • Unartful,
  • trusting,
  • unrestrained,
  • ingenuous,
  • undeceptive,
  • un-artificial,
  • plain,
  • outgoing,
  • downright,
  • unsophisticated,
  • natural,
  • naive,
  • undeceitful,
  • candid,
  • uncalculating,
  • genuine,
  • direct,
  • Plain-spoken,
  • artless,
  • undeceiving,
  • broad,
  • frank,
  • callow,
  • unaffected.
  •barefaced (adjective)
  • obvious.
  •blunt (adjective)
  • unsharpened,
  • obtuse,
  • unpointed,
  • dull,
  • rounded,
  • pointless.
  •concise (adjective)
  • incisive,
  • brusque,
  • compact,
  • abrupt,
  • succinct,
  • to the point,
  • short,
  • terse,
  • short and sweet,
  • curt,
  • brief,
  • concise.
  •direct (adjective)
  • undisguised.
  •dull (adjective)
  • sleepy,
  • benumbed,
  • soporific,
  • thick-witted,
  • unpointed,
  • sluggish,
  • comatose,
  • loutish,
  • drowsy,
  • bovine,
  • round,
  • stupid,
  • ponderous,
  • obtuse,
  • doltish,
  • cloddish,
  • dull,
  • dense,
  • unsharpened,
  • toothless,
  • apathetic,
  • edgeless,
  • boorish,
  • slow,
  • dim,
  • stupefied,
  • besotted,
  • lethargic.
  •insensitive (adjective)
  • numb,
  • heartless,
  • apathetic,
  • hard-boiled,
  • indifferent,
  • nonchalant,
  • unemotional,
  • insensitive,
  • tough,
  • hardened,
  • objective,
  • uncompassionate,
  • emotionless,
  • hard,
  • hardhearted,
  • ruthless,
  • anesthetized,
  • unfeeling,
  • unsympathetic,
  • aloof,
  • passionless,
  • callous,
  • passive,
  • cold-blooded,
  • unconcerned,
  • stony,
  • cool,
  • dispassionate,
  • detached.
  •irritable (adjective)
  • crabby.
  •mere (adjective)
  • unmixed,
  • unadorned.
  •not sharp (adjective)
  • round,
  • dull,
  • rounded,
  • obtuse,
  • edgeless,
  • dulled,
  • pointless,
  • unsharpened,
  • insensitive.
  •plainspoken (adjective)
  • Plain-spoken,
  • plainspoken.
  •severe (adjective)
  • rigid,
  • gruff,
  • intolerant,
  • acerbic,
  • piquant,
  • brisk,
  • stringent,
  • raw,
  • hidebound,
  • draconian,
  • lean,
  • rigorous,
  • caustic,
  • frosty,
  • oppressive,
  • acrimonious,
  • chilly,
  • prudish,
  • acute,
  • spare,
  • puritanical,
  • crisp,
  • stiff-necked,
  • ascetic,
  • imperial,
  • inflexible,
  • exacting,
  • astringent,
  • icy,
  • cutting,
  • precise,
  • bleak,
  • abrupt,
  • brusque,
  • unbending,
  • relentless,
  • curt,
  • harsh,
  • correct,
  • stern,
  • severe,
  • critical,
  • strict,
  • basic,
  • authoritarian,
  • dry,
  • strait-laced,
  • censorious,
  • meticulous,
  • intense,
  • demanding,
  • uncompromising,
  • tart,
  • dour,
  • sharp,
  • stark,
  • obdurate,
  • disciplined,
  • grim,
  • austere,
  • spartan,
  • obstinate,
  • short,
  • fundamental,
  • keen,
  • cool.
  •short (adjective)
  • short.
  •straightforward (adjective)
  • crusty,
  • frank,
  • tactless,
  • curt,
  • snippy,
  • uncivil,
  • trenchant,
  • forthright,
  • candid,
  • discourteous,
  • explicit,
  • snappy,
  • rude,
  • short,
  • Plain-spoken,
  • bluff,
  • brief,
  • unceremonious,
  • abrupt,
  • impolite,
  • outspoken,
  • unpolished,
  • gruff,
  • brusque.
  •succinct (adjective)
  • informal,
  • clear,
  • ordinary,
  • unpoetical,
  • intelligible,
  • bald,
  • candid,
  • frank,
  • Plain-spoken,
  • stark,
  • uncluttered,
  • direct,
  • unadorned,
  • folksy,
  • outspoken,
  • simple,
  • honest,
  • unpretentious,
  • straightforward,
  • casual,
  • prosaic.
  •vocal (adjective)
  • free-spoken.

• n.

  •
  • straighten,
  • bend,
  • twist,
  • reshape,
  • deform,
  • curl,
  • shape,
  • work,
  • form.
  •
  • irreproachable,
  • upstanding,
  • decent,
  • attitude,
  • good,
  • fine,
  • truthful,
  • principled,
  • crusty,
  • Short-spoken.
  •
  • slithery,
  • even,
  • smooth,
  • level,
  • glassy,
  • flat,
  • slippery,
  • smoothly,
  • glazed.
  •
  • reduce,
  • subside,
  • weaken,
  • erode,
  • lessen,
  • shrivel,
  • dilute,
  • moderate.
  •abrupt (noun)
  • undiplomatic,
  • thoughtless,
  • tactless,
  • unceremonious.
  •blunt (noun)
  • numb,
  • crude,
  • unpointed,
  • plainspoken,
  • dull,
  • benumb,
  • candid,
  • pointless,
  • unconditional,
  • frank,
  • stark,
  • point-blank,
  • free-spoken,
  • deaden,
  • forthright,
  • direct,
  • outspoken.

• v.

  •blunt (verb)
  • soften,
  • desensitize,
  • deaden,
  • diminish.
  •change (verb)
  • deaden.
  •contact (verb)
  • dull.
  •make dull (verb)
  • cripple,
  • desensitize,
  • sap,
  • dampen,
  • debilitate,
  • water down,
  • soften,
  • benumb,
  • numb,
  • take the edge off,
  • enfeeble,
  • undermine,
  • disable,
  • Hebetate,
  • weaken,
  • attenuate,
  • obtund,
  • deaden.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • slithery,
  • Short-spoken,
  • trenchant.
  •
  • slippery,
  • crusty.
  •
  • smoothly,
  • harden.
  •
  • even.
  •
  • turn.
  •
  • level.
  •
  • flat.
  •disable
  • immobilize.
  •drug
  • physic,
  • medicate,
  • drugged,
  • narcotize.
  •harden
  • harden,
  • disciplined.
  •numb
  • obtund,
  • frosted.
  •plain
  • unflattering.
  •weaken
  • undermine.
  •Other relevant words:
  • rhino,
  • cripple,
  • rocks,
  • incontestable,
  • soothe,
  • immovable,
  • categorical,
  • gruel,
  • Boodle,
  • forthrightly,
  • ungraceful,
  • immobilize,
  • ingenuously,
  • definite,
  • asphyxiate,
  • enfeeble,
  • bread,
  • out of touch,
  • disclose,
  • simply,
  • moisten,
  • truculent,
  • explicit,
  • border,
  • hebetudinous,
  • openly,
  • slow down,
  • drugged,
  • Free-tongued,
  • unstrengthen,
  • self-absorbed,
  • temper,
  • Clodhopping,
  • porcine,
  • calm,
  • approximately,
  • point-blank,
  • dim-witted,
  • slithery,
  • surly,
  • offensive,
  • cramp,
  • chill,
  • evident,
  • etherize,
  • remit,
  • unquestionable,
  • lighten up,
  • lay,
  • edgeless,
  • hem,
  • unwary,
  • realistic,
  • placate,
  • strain,
  • definitive,
  • sour,
  • brusk,
  • don't mention it,
  • Uncourtly,
  • appease,
  • unabashed,
  • efface,
  • coin,
  • inert,
  • barely,
  • unvarnished,
  • Contemper,
  • shekels,
  • unneighborly,
  • bluntly,
  • crotchety,
  • Chips,
  • unsusceptible,
  • edge,
  • lenify,
  • defuse,
  • heart-to-heart,
  • acid,
  • born yesterday,
  • emasculate,
  • straighten,
  • unalterable,
  • plunks,
  • Unpassionate,
  • smooth,
  • gauche,
  • unsuspicious,
  • inept,
  • unmannerly,
  • querulous,
  • sugar,
  • dampen,
  • illiterate,
  • publicly,
  • inescapable,
  • cross,
  • dopey,
  • crabbed,
  • corn,
  • ill-natured,
  • guileless,
  • impolite,
  • obviously,
  • maladroit,
  • thoughtless,
  • repel,
  • acerb,
  • constrain,
  • unconstrained,
  • brute,
  • girdle,
  • gray,
  • deprecate,
  • still,
  • smoothly,
  • flatly,
  • slack,
  • unloving,
  • innocent,
  • manifest,
  • inactive,
  • Single-hearted,
  • glaring,
  • pall,
  • unsharp,
  • attitude,
  • patently,
  • put under,
  • soft,
  • ungainly,
  • undignified,
  • straight-from-the-shoulder,
  • curl,
  • Inexcitable,
  • jack,
  • check,
  • enervate,
  • devitalize,
  • moderate,
  • blatant,
  • unelaborated,
  • offhand,
  • honestly,
  • discourage,
  • toothless,
  • impertinent,
  • fairly,
  • dough,
  • vulgar,
  • bad-tempered,
  • awkward,
  • bluff,
  • sap,
  • peevish,
  • candidness,
  • shore,
  • overcast,
  • autistic,
  • wampum,
  • chink,
  • extenuate,
  • unpurified,
  • unchecked,
  • obvious,
  • even,
  • uncivilized,
  • freely,
  • untouchable,
  • caput mortuum,
  • bate,
  • cushion,
  • churlish,
  • bottom dollar,
  • positively,
  • arctic,
  • unambiguous,
  • verge,
  • impair,
  • childlike,
  • matter of fact,
  • ill-tempered,
  • ill-humoured,
  • cavalier,
  • outright,
  • evidently,
  • dishearten,
  • worn,
  • shallow,
  • conspicuous,
  • candour,
  • Levelly,
  • stifle,
  • ill-mannered,
  • anesthetize,
  • asinine,
  • sprain,
  • money,
  • unalloyed,
  • stolid,
  • thickheaded,
  • sulky,
  • good,
  • truthful,
  • unbrace,
  • damp,
  • openhearted,
  • entirely,
  • crusty,
  • unrefined,
  • frigid,
  • unceremonious,
  • shrivel,
  • silence,
  • decent,
  • grease,
  • form,
  • unpolished,
  • indisputable,
  • coldhearted,
  • unaffectionate,
  • unwise,
  • spondulix,
  • pure,
  • uncontrived,
  • reshape,
  • slow-witted,
  • unfinished,
  • unbiased,
  • throw a wet blanket on,
  • distinctly,
  • spiritless,
  • attenuate,
  • Dull-witted,
  • palsy,
  • pocket,
  • keep back,
  • subdue,
  • distract,
  • instantly,
  • knock senseless,
  • brutalize,
  • desolate,
  • indispose,
  • indelicate,
  • bold,
  • rattle,
  • propitiate,
  • snippy,
  • dullness,
  • decimate,
  • barren,
  • unimpassioned,
  • sheathe,
  • salt,
  • unqualified,
  • beastly,
  • fine,
  • averse,
  • plainly,
  • Bluntish,
  • specie,
  • soulless,
  • powder,
  • just,
  • Imperceptive,
  • remission,
  • Uncomplaisant,
  • Open-hearted,
  • hinder,
  • rude,
  • tune down,
  • pacify,
  • sullen,
  • besot,
  • mazuma,
  • sheer,
  • brusquely,
  • fleeting,
  • drug,
  • frosted,
  • simoleons,
  • moss,
  • unconditional,
  • glazed,
  • mere,
  • deter,
  • divert,
  • unprocessed,
  • roughly,
  • apparently,
  • sober,
  • bend,
  • heavy,
  • deform,
  • ungracious,
  • turn from,
  • merely,
  • unmitigated,
  • tell the truth,
  • impoverish,
  • ungentle,
  • unman,
  • insusceptible,
  • dilute,
  • kale,
  • uncalculated,
  • brash,
  • ballast,
  • vocal,
  • wean,
  • erode,
  • debilitate,
  • loosely,
  • turn off,
  • gross,
  • stinging,
  • Inaffable,
  • quiet,
  • lineal,
  • affectless,
  • kayo,
  • patent,
  • shake,
  • through,
  • ready cash,
  • Brutify,
  • slug,
  • unaccommodating,
  • muzzle,
  • churl,
  • Thick-headed,
  • tranquillize,
  • unmannered,
  • disincline,
  • uncivil,
  • turn,
  • repulsive,
  • accurate,
  • plump,
  • gelt,
  • chasten,
  • stagger,
  • principled,
  • undiplomatic,
  • work,
  • currency,
  • benumb,
  • stun,
  • Impassible,
  • underbred,
  • inhibit,
  • bare,
  • modulate,
  • gilt,
  • above-board,
  • free,
  • smother,
  • crude,
  • deviation,
  • unmistakeable,
  • lessen,
  • straight-shooting,
  • unequivocal,
  • lifeless,
  • discourteous,
  • shape,
  • bunce,
  • squelch,
  • Fat-witted,
  • put to sleep,
  • forthright,
  • Gross-headed,
  • trustful,
  • disobliging,
  • quieten,
  • rugged,
  • assuage,
  • uncouth,
  • trenchant,
  • unpremeditated,
  • reduce,
  • fully,
  • unimpressionable,
  • impassive,
  • torpid,
  • snappish,
  • ineluctable,
  • frozen,
  • dope,
  • verifiable,
  • dispirit,
  • dead,
  • unavoidable,
  • curb,
  • absolutely,
  • obtund,
  • specific,
  • checks,
  • ointment,
  • inapt,
  • dulcify,
  • paralyse,
  • unguarded,
  • philistine,
  • freehanded,
  • tone down,
  • frankly,
  • threshold,
  • Beans,
  • control,
  • Spondulics,
  • clearly,
  • unsubtle,
  • dead letter,
  • cur,
  • smooth down,
  • rough,
  • ease up,
  • water down,
  • hold back,
  • unconcealed,
  • disaffect,
  • unskilful,
  • overbearing,
  • brim,
  • uncooperative,
  • bullets,
  • splenetic,
  • Snippety,
  • petulant,
  • repress,
  • unreactive,
  • chloroform,
  • Dibs,
  • decrease,
  • confiding,
  • render insensible,
  • brutal,
  • dulled,
  • plain-speaking,
  • narcotize,
  • naked,
  • impolitic,
  • undermine,
  • directly,
  • underplay,
  • medium,
  • tame,
  • bedaze,
  • knock unconscious,
  • lay low,
  • beast,
  • Short-spoken,
  • nonemotional,
  • unladylike,
  • flat,
  • dinero,
  • purse,
  • coldcock,
  • irascible,
  • transparent,
  • alleviate,
  • unflattering,
  • cauterize,
  • irreproachable,
  • relieve,
  • circulating medium,
  • slacken,
  • lighten,
  • animal,
  • soften up,
  • immutable,
  • turn away,
  • undisguisedly,
  • bad-mannered,
  • faired,
  • shut off,
  • unreserved,
  • Dullish,
  • quench,
  • crabby,
  • uninfluential,
  • straight,
  • boundary,
  • freehand,
  • gag,
  • grouchy,
  • ungallant,
  • Borne,
  • Mopus,
  • free-spoken,
  • Hebetate,
  • completely,
  • smoothed,
  • improper,
  • glassy,
  • muffle,
  • de-emphasize,
  • wanting,
  • indiscreet,
  • upstanding,
  • subside,
  • allay,
  • weaken,
  • boor,
  • aggressive,
  • quash,
  • Accoy,
  • twist,
  • laconic,
  • eviscerate,
  • tasteless,
  • mollify,
  • take the edge off,
  • turn aside,
  • uncomplicated,
  • wooden,
  • palpable,
  • candidly,
  • insensible,
  • tactless,
  • exhaust,
  • blustering,
  • clinkers,
  • sappy,
  • bucks,
  • testy,
  • flagrant,
  • disable,
  • uninhibited,
  • lowbred,
  • inconsiderate,
  • bones,
  • cabbage,
  • incontrovertible,
  • desensitise,
  • harden,
  • simplehearted,
  • unembellished,
  • single-minded,
  • unmixed,
  • morose,
  • brass,
  • abatement,
  • cold,
  • clumsy,
  • Spoony,
  • straight-out,
  • Retund,
  • mouthy,
  • unnerve,
  • cold cash,
  • simpleminded,
  • suppress,
  • shake up,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • moolah,
  • stupefy,
  • bearish,
  • Disedge,
  • undeniable,
  • unadulterated,
  • round,
  • biting,
  • mute,
  • injudicious,
  • ready money,
  • bungling,
  • artlessly,
  • barefaced,
  • waste paper,
  • imprudent,
  • gingerbread,
  • catatonic,
  • weak,
  • Blunt-witted,
  • ingenu,
  • grumpy,
  • coarsely,
  • play down,
  • disagreeable,
  • short-tempered,
  • physic,
  • unresponsive,
  • thick,
  • dollar,
  • Insulse,
  • green,
  • possibles,
  • mitigate,
  • do-re-mi,
  • disinterest,
  • bluffly,
  • blur,
  • hard cash,
  • ease,
  • dirt,
  • brink,
  • relax,
  • keep within bounds,
  • obtuseness,
  • anaesthetize,
  • blunted,
  • sharpen,
  • buck,
  • unmistakable,
  • capital,
  • unshrinking,
  • anaesthetised,
  • disrespectful,
  • unreticent,
  • primitive,
  • out-and-out,
  • cantankerous,
  • downplay,
  • throw cold water on,
  • coarse,
  • obscure,
  • deflect,
  • ungentlemanly,
  • funds,
  • paralyze,
  • edentate,
  • speak one's mind,
  • manifestly,
  • restrain,
  • medicate,
  • lay out,
  • attemper,
  • rough-spoken,
  • Berries,
  • unreservedly,
  • slippery,
  • mull,
  • abate,
  • dust,
  • real,
  • level,
  • irritable,
  • piece,
  • thickskulled,
  • freeze,
  • unfriendly,
  • snappy,
  • palliate,
  • plainspoken,
  • unstring,
  • tin,
  • OOF,
  • upfront.

Antonyms for Blunt:

• adj.

  • not sharp
    subtle, needled, sharp, tactful, polite, pointed.
  • straightforward
    lengthy, long, kind, nice, devious.
  • Other antonyms:
    suave, refined, scratching, edgy, sharpened, spiked, conditional, diplomatic, gracious, talkative, piercing, courteous, cultivated, needlelike, tactful, liven up, jabbing, long-winded, prickly, Whetted, animate, genial, keen, indirect, considerate, gallant, Lacerating, spiky, sharp, mealymouthed, edged, stabbing, smooth, prolix, invigorate, spikelike, civil, loquacious, bland, sharpen, pointed, jagged, politic, enliven, polite, reserved, ground, verbose, genteel, polished, liven, voluble, cutting, spiny, courtly, urbane, circuitous.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    acute, aid, amplify, animate, arouse, assist, augment, beef, beef up, boost, circuitous, civil, considerate, consolidate, courteous, courtly, cultivated, cutting, deepen, devious, diplomatic, edged, edgy, encourage, enhance, enliven, gallant, genteel, gracious, ground, heighten, help, hone, increase, indirect, intensify, invigorate, jabbing, jagged, keen, kind, lengthy, liven, liven up, long, long-winded, loquacious, magnify, mealymouthed, needle, needlelike, nice, piercing, point, pointed, polished, polite, politic, prickly, prolix, redouble, refined, scratching, sensitive, sharp, sharpen, sharpened, smooth, spiked, spikelike, spiky, spiny, stabbing, stimulate, strengthen, suave, subtle, tactful, talkative, verbose, vitalize, voluble, whet, Honed, Lacerating, Whetted, step up, needled, put an edge on.

• v.

  • change
    enliven.
  • contact
    sharpen.
  • make dull
    increase, sharpen, encourage, aid, help, enliven, point, needle, assist, strengthen.