What is another word for blunt?
912 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ blˈʌnt], [ blˈʌnt], [ b_l_ˈʌ_n_t]Table of Contents
Similar words for blunt:- abrupt (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- artless (adjective)
- bald (adjective)
- bare (adjective)
- barefaced (adjective)
- bluff (adjective)
- blunt (adjective)
- brief (adjective)
- brusque (adjective)
- candid (adjective)
- churlish (adjective)
- concise (adjective)
- crabby (adjective)
- crabby/crabbed (adjective)
- crusty (adjective)
- curt (adjective)
- direct (adjective)
- downright (adjective)
- dull (adjective)
- forthright (adjective)
- frank (adjective)
- gruff (adjective)
- insensitive (adjective)
- irritable (adjective)
- mere (adjective)
- not sharp (adjective)
- outspoken (adjective)
- plainspoken (adjective)
- point-blank (adjective)
- rough (adjective)
- round (adjective)
- rude (adjective)
- rugged (adjective)
- short (adjective)
- short-spoken (adjective)
- snippy (adjective)
- stark (adjective)
- stolid (adjective)
- straight (adjective)
- straight-out (adjective)
- straight-shooting (adjective)
- straightforward (adjective)
- succinct (adjective)
- uncivil (adjective)
- unflattering (adjective)
- unrestrained (adjective)
- vocal (adjective)
- abrupt (noun)
- allay (noun)
- blunt (noun)
- plain (noun)
- appease (verb)
- benumb (verb)
- blunt (verb)
- cripple (verb)
- deaden (verb)
- debilitate (verb)
- disable (verb)
- drug (verb)
- enfeeble (verb)
- harden (verb)
- impair (verb)
- make dull (verb)
- mitigate (verb)
- mollify (verb)
- numb (verb)
- stupefy (verb)
- undermine (verb)
- other synonyms
- disable
- drug
- harden
- medicate
- numb
Synonyms for Blunt:
adj.
•abrupt (adjective) •all (adjective) •artless (adjective)- un-artificial,
- natural,
- broad,
- outgoing,
- callow,
- uncalculating,
- undeceptive,
- honest,
- undeceitful,
- open,
- straightforward,
- artless,
- sincere,
- naive,
- Unartful,
- unsophisticated,
- Plain-spoken,
- unaffected,
- undisguised,
- undeceiving,
- overt,
- genuine,
- Unbeguiling,
- trusting,
- ingenuous.
- out-right,
- un embellished,
- out right,
- severe,
- out rightest,
- out righter,
- out-rightest,
- out-righter,
- unembellished,
- un-embellished.
- most breviloquent,
- more blustering,
- more breviloquent,
- heartiest,
- nononsense,
- more plain-spoken,
- most plain spoken,
- more plain spoken,
- most plain-spoken,
- most blustering,
- more bearish,
- most bearish.
- most uncolored,
- telling like is,
- un-biased,
- most unpretended,
- up-right,
- un-prejudiced,
- un-colored,
- telling it like it is,
- most frontal,
- right front,
- telling it like is,
- un pretended,
- un equivocal,
- un prejudiced,
- up right,
- more frontal,
- more uncolored,
- un-equivocal,
- impartial,
- un biased,
- un colored,
- un-pretended,
- telling like it is,
- more unpretended.
- more cussed,
- most cussed,
- un sociable,
- more lowbred,
- ill tempered,
- un-neighborly,
- un-civilized,
- most clodhopping,
- more clodhopping,
- more unneighborly,
- most cloddish,
- un polished,
- un cultured,
- un neighborly,
- un-sociable,
- oafish,
- illtempered,
- un-cultured,
- morose,
- most unneighborly,
- un civilized,
- un-polished,
- most lowbred,
- more cloddish.
- more ill humored,
- illhumored,
- more difficult,
- most ill humored,
- more splenetic,
- more ill-humored,
- most nasty tempered,
- most ill-humored,
- most nasty-tempered,
- mis anthropic,
- huffy,
- more nasty tempered,
- more nastytempered,
- ill-humored,
- bad tempered,
- irritable,
- mis-anthropic,
- most crabbed,
- snappish,
- more illhumored,
- splenetic,
- most nastytempered,
- badtempered,
- nastytempered,
- more nasty-tempered,
- nasty tempered,
- most illhumored,
- most splenetic,
- ill humored,
- gloomy.
- un-mitigated,
- in dubitable,
- un-qualified,
- un qualified,
- more thoroughgoing,
- in-dubitable,
- un questionable,
- un-questionable,
- un mitigated.
- dense,
- loutish,
- thick-witted,
- dim,
- not keen,
- edgeless,
- apathetic,
- lethargic,
- comatose,
- doltish,
- drowsy,
- stupefied,
- sluggish,
- soporific,
- stupid,
- besotted,
- boorish,
- edentulate,
- benumbed,
- sleepy,
- slow,
- toothless,
- ponderous,
- bovine.
- like is,
- most directly,
- like it is,
- call spade a spade,
- call spade spade,
- more directly,
- call a spade spade,
- from hip.
- more heart-to-heart,
- bare faced,
- most flat out,
- most flatout,
- un restricted,
- most bare-faced,
- lay it the line,
- more flat-out,
- more bare faced,
- lay it line,
- saying what thinks,
- un-restricted,
- more heart to heart,
- more flatout,
- lay the line,
- lay it on line,
- more bare-faced,
- lay line,
- un-inhibited,
- un inhibited,
- most heart to heart,
- most heart-to-heart,
- heart to heart,
- most bare faced,
- lay on line,
- most flat-out,
- flatout,
- more flat out.
- passionless,
- callous,
- unconcerned,
- stony,
- passive,
- heartless,
- hardened,
- uncompassionate,
- aloof,
- objective,
- hard,
- indifferent,
- insensitive,
- unfeeling,
- dispassionate,
- hardhearted,
- hard-boiled,
- cold-blooded,
- unsympathetic,
- tough,
- detached,
- unemotional,
- emotionless,
- cool,
- nonchalant,
- ruthless.
- laying the line,
- laying it on line,
- un reticent,
- out spoken,
- laying line,
- calling spade spade,
- more unreticent,
- out-spoken,
- most unreticent,
- laying it the line,
- laying it line,
- laying on the line,
- laying on line.
- un juster,
- untutored,
- un refined,
- un-couth,
- un-pleasant,
- un pleasant,
- in elegant,
- un cultivated,
- more untutored,
- in decorous,
- un-juster,
- un-tutored,
- un just,
- un feeling,
- in-elegant,
- in delicate,
- most untutored,
- in-decorous,
- un-refined,
- un-justest,
- un-cultivated,
- un-just,
- illmannered,
- un justest,
- in-delicate,
- un tutored,
- ill mannered,
- un couth.
- most bad mannered,
- badmannered,
- un-educated,
- most brutish,
- more bad-mannered,
- uneducated,
- most bad-mannered,
- un educated,
- most badmannered,
- more bad mannered,
- bad mannered,
- more brutish,
- more badmannered.
- most bovine,
- in different,
- un-excitable,
- un excitable,
- in-different,
- lumpish,
- most unexcitable,
- un-emotional,
- un emotional,
- in-active,
- stoic,
- more unexcitable,
- more bovine.
- uncluttered,
- ordinary,
- informal,
- casual,
- unpoetical,
- cut to bone,
- simple,
- clear,
- in a nutshell,
- cut to the bone,
- in few words,
- folksy,
- prosaic,
- intelligible,
- unpretentious.
- un-civil,
- un civil,
- un friendlier,
- mannerless,
- un-friendly,
- most mannerless,
- un-friendlier,
- un-gentlemanly,
- un-friendliest,
- un gentlemanly,
- more mannerless,
- un friendliest.
- un checked,
- most saturnalian,
- un-governed,
- un-bounded,
- un governed,
- un-controlled,
- un hampered,
- dis-solute,
- most unhampered,
- in discriminate,
- un-limited,
- un controlled,
- incontinent,
- un bridled,
- un-restrained,
- in continent,
- in-discriminate,
- un curbed,
- in-continent,
- un-checked,
- un-hampered,
- un bounded,
- in-temperate,
- dis solute,
- most uncurbed,
- un restrained,
- in-ordinate,
- more saturnalian,
- in temperate,
- more unhampered,
- un-curbed,
- un-bridled,
- more uncurbed.
n.
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- irreproachable,
- truthful,
- upstanding,
- decent,
- fine,
- principled,
- attitude,
- good.
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- smooth.
v.
•appease (verb)- being enough,
- making matters up,
- sub dues,
- is enough,
- makes matters up,
- was enough,
- sub-due,
- are enough,
- patching things up,
- met halfway,
- patches things up,
- sub-dues,
- patched things up,
- wert enough,
- wast enough,
- am enough,
- sub due,
- made matters up.
- in capacitated,
- dis arms,
- dis membered,
- in-capacitates,
- in capacitating,
- dis-limbed,
- dis-member,
- in capacitates,
- dis-arms,
- in capacitate,
- unstrengthens,
- dis-membered,
- dis-limbing,
- in-capacitated,
- un strengthened,
- dis arming,
- dis-limbs,
- in-capacitate,
- dis-members,
- dislimbs,
- un strengthen,
- un strengthening,
- un-strengthening,
- dis-armed,
- dis limbed,
- un-strengthen,
- dis members,
- dis limb,
- dis limbs,
- un-strengthened,
- un-strengthens,
- dislimbing,
- dis member,
- sidelining,
- in-capacitating,
- dis-limb,
- unstrengthening,
- un strengthens,
- dis armed,
- dis limbing,
- dis-arming.
- de pressing,
- de vitalized,
- re pressing,
- de-sensitizes,
- de pressed,
- de-sensitize,
- de-stroyed,
- de sensitizes,
- re-duce,
- un nerved,
- de-vitalizes,
- un-nerve,
- de-press,
- re duce,
- de-pressing,
- un nerves,
- lays out,
- de-vitalized,
- de vitalize,
- de-pressed,
- de vitalizes,
- de stroyed,
- re press,
- puts out of order,
- de-vitalizing,
- de-sensitizing,
- de stroying,
- un-nerving,
- de stroy,
- re-presses,
- de adens,
- de-vitalize,
- de press,
- ko'd,
- puts sleep,
- de stroys,
- Etherized,
- re-duces,
- putting out order,
- de-aden,
- un nerve,
- ko'ing,
- Etherizing,
- re presses,
- de-stroy,
- de-adens,
- de vitalizing,
- de sensitized,
- re duces,
- de sensitizing,
- de-presses,
- de-sensitized,
- de sensitize,
- putting sleep,
- putting out of order,
- de presses,
- un nerving,
- un-nerves,
- de-stroys,
- de-stroying,
- re-pressing,
- koing,
- re pressed,
- etherizes,
- KOD,
- put sleep,
- put out order,
- puts out order,
- de aden.
- un bracing,
- re-lax,
- un brace,
- unbracing,
- un-braces,
- unbraces,
- un-brace,
- un-bracing,
- un-braced,
- un braces,
- re lax,
- un braced.
- in-validate,
- dis qualify,
- in validates,
- rendered incapable,
- dis enables,
- dis qualifies,
- dis qualifying,
- un-fitted,
- in validating,
- rendering incapable,
- throwing monkey wrench in,
- dis-enable,
- disenabled,
- dis-qualify,
- throws monkey wrench in,
- un-fitting,
- put out action,
- shooting down,
- puts out of action,
- dis-enabling,
- dis qualified,
- dis enabling,
- in-validated,
- putting out action,
- disenabling,
- kiboshed,
- dis-enables,
- un-fits,
- un-fit,
- un fits,
- shoots down,
- in-validating,
- kiboshing,
- threw monkey wrench in,
- dis-qualified,
- dis-qualifying,
- dis enable,
- in validate,
- puts out action,
- un fitted,
- renders incapable,
- un fitting,
- disenables,
- dis-qualifies,
- dis-enabled,
- in-validates,
- putting out of action,
- un fit,
- in validated,
- dis enabled.
- co arsen,
- case harden,
- renders insensitive,
- made callous,
- case hardens,
- Climatizing,
- callusses,
- making callous,
- rendering insensitive,
- casehardens,
- rendered insensitive,
- makes callous,
- climatizes,
- case hardened,
- case-hardens,
- case hardening,
- co-arsen.
- de-based,
- de valuating,
- de valuated,
- de creasing,
- de valued,
- de based,
- de values,
- de-creased,
- de crease,
- de valuing,
- de-valuating,
- de-valuated,
- de valuates,
- making useless,
- de base,
- de-creasing,
- de-values,
- losing strength,
- de-basing,
- de-base,
- de creased,
- de-value,
- de-valuates,
- lost strength,
- makes useless,
- de basing,
- de valuate,
- de-valuate,
- de-crease,
- de creases,
- de-valuing,
- de-creases,
- de value,
- loses strength,
- de-valued,
- made useless.
- taking edge off,
- took edge off,
- took the edge off,
- take edge off,
- takes edge off,
- taking the edge off,
- came together,
- takes the edge off.
- over whelmed,
- over whelm,
- sur prises,
- be-wildering,
- be-wilder,
- over-whelm,
- be-muse,
- sur prise,
- over whelming,
- over-whelmed,
- be-mused,
- sur-prising,
- sur prising,
- be-wilders,
- be-wildered,
- be wildered,
- over-whelming,
- be-sotted,
- be-musing,
- sur-prised,
- be sotted,
- sur-prise,
- be wilders,
- be wilder,
- over-whelms,
- be muse,
- sur-prises,
- be mused,
- be wildering,
- be musing,
- over whelms.
- hollows out,
- clipped wings,
- hollowed out,
- pokes full of holes,
- clip ones wings,
- clipped ones wings,
- clipping one wings,
- whittles away,
- hollowing out,
- poking full holes,
- under mined,
- clipping one's wings,
- digging out,
- clips wings,
- under mining,
- whittling away,
- knocks the bottom out of,
- under cut,
- poked full holes,
- clips one wings,
- clipped one's wings,
- clipped one wings,
- knocked bottom out of,
- poked full of holes,
- dug out,
- knocking the bottom out of,
- clipping wings,
- whittled away,
- under-mining,
- under-cuts,
- under cuts,
- knocking bottom out of,
- knocks bottom out of,
- under cutting,
- clips one's wings,
- digged out,
- ate away,
- ex cavate,
- poke full holes,
- under-cutting,
- poking full of holes,
- under-mined,
- digs out,
- clips ones wings,
- clipping ones wings,
- knocked the bottom out of,
- pokes full holes,
- under-cut,
- ex-cavate,
- clip one wings.
Other synonyms:
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- slippery.
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- even.
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- turn.
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- level.
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- flat.
- unfitted,
- throw monkey wrench in,
- takes out,
- take out,
- shoot down,
- pinioned,
- Pinioning,
- took out,
- pinions,
- shot down,
- unfits,
- unfitting,
- taking out,
- disenable,
- hogtie,
- immobilize,
- put out of action,
- render incapable,
- pinion.
- sedated,
- drugged,
- medicate,
- dope up,
- sedating,
- dose up,
- dosing,
- sedates,
- Poisoned,
- physic,
- dosed,
- narcotize.
- Roughening,
- calloused,
- coarsens,
- calluses,
- callouses,
- coarsening,
- disciplined,
- Climatized,
- Caseharden,
- coarsen,
- case-harden,
- render insensitive,
- Disciplining,
- Climatize,
- roughened,
- coarsened,
- Casehardened,
- embitter,
- make callous,
- case-hardening,
- callusing,
- callused,
- case-hardened,
- roughens,
- roughen,
- callousing,
- callus,
- Casehardening.
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Adjective
forthright, straightforward, brutal, outspoken, abrupt, brutish, inscrutable, honest, hard-hitting, unequivocal.
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Proper noun, singular
Blount.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Blunt:
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Other antonyms:
reserved, bland, spiked, spiky, urbane, smooth, gallant, piercing, loquacious, courteous, suave, Lacerating, prickly, politic, jagged, diplomatic, mealymouthed, genial, voluble, talkative, spiny, stabbing, considerate, scratching, jabbing, spikelike, conditional, needlelike.
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enliven.
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sharpen.
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