Blunt vs Blatant - What's the difference?
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Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; not sharp.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
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, chapter=17 Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
Hard to impress or penetrate.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
A short needle with a strong point.
(smoking) A marijuana cigar.
* 2005': to make his point, lead rapper B-Real fired up a '''blunt in front of the cameras and several hundred thousand people and announced, “I'm taking a hit for every one of y'all!” — Martin Torgoff, ''Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, p. 461)
(UK, slang, archaic, uncountable) money
* Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
(figuratively) To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.
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Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.
Obvious, on show.
* (Richard Henry Dana)
* (Edmund Spenser)
* (Washington Irving)
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As adjectives the difference between blunt and blatant
is that blunt is having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; not sharp while blatant is bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.As a noun blunt
is a fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.As a verb blunt
is to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.blunt
English
Adjective
(er)- The murderous knife was dull and blunt .
The Three Corpse Trick, section=chapter 5 , passage=The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.}}
citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}
- His wits are not so blunt .
- the blunt admission that he had never liked my company
- a plain, blunt man
- I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions.
Synonyms
* (having a thick edge or point) dull, pointless, coarse * (dull in understanding) stupid, obtuse * (abrupt in address) curt, short, rude, brusque, impolite, uncivil, harshDerived terms
* blunt instrument * bluntly * bluntnessNoun
(en noun)- Down he goes to the Commons, to see the lawyer and draw the blunt
Verb
(en verb)citation, page= , passage=That settled the Merseysiders for a short while but it did not blunt the home side's spirit. }}
See also
* bluntly * dull ----blatant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Harsh and blatant tone.
- A monster, which the blatant beast men call.
- Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet.
Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.}}