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What is the adjective for bluntish?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs blunt and blunten which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

blunt
  1. Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
  2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
  3. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
  4. Hard to impress or penetrate.
  5. Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
  6. Synonyms:
      7. dull, obtuse, dulled, unsharpened, blunted, edgeless, worn, not sharp, worn down, rounded, round, pointless, unkeen, unpointed, smoothed, smooth-edged, not keen, flat, stubbed, stubby, thick, frank, direct, candid, straightforward, forthright, honest, outspoken, upfront, unequivocal, explicit, bald, unvarnished, unqualified, undisguised, simple, unadorned, unembellished, stark, bare, crisp, trenchant, unpolished, uncompromising, plain-spoken … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “The best you can do is to remove most of the substance from the carpet using a blunt knife.”
      “It was like a contest between a man with a rifle and a man with a blunt club.”
      “From that humorous mouth came a very blunt question about the intimate workings of my inner mechanism.”
bluntish
  1. Somewhat blunt.
  2. Examples:
      3. “I was trying to shave with a bluntish razor-blade while the water ran into the bath.”
      “The rather bluntish cast of his face was even blunter and plainer.”
      “They spent hours laboriously chopping wood with bluntish axes.”
blunter
  1. comparative form of blunt: more blunt
  2. Synonyms:
      3. duller, obtuser, more worn, more unintelligent, ignoranter, denser, more brainless, more mindless, foolisher, more dull-witted, more slow-witted, more witless, slower, more simple-minded, more empty-headed, more vacuous, more vapid, more idiotic, more moronic, more imbecilic, more imbecile, more doltish, more gullible, more naive, stolider, simpler, more oafish, more deficient, more nitwitted, more unsmart, more opaque, more addle-brained, stupider, flatter, rounder, stubbier, thicker, more rounded, more stubbed, more pointless, more unkeen, franker, directer, candider, honester, balder, starker … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “This situation leads to a blunter light-response curve, and lowers light use efficiency.”
      “Pragmatism is all very well, but there are blunter ways to describe the new state of mind.”
      “Does that mean that Gillette will have to start making blunter razor blades so they will not be culpable if we nick ourselves shaving?”
bluntest
  1. superlative form of blunt: most blunt
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dullest, obtusest, most worn, most unintelligent, ignorantest, densest, most brainless, most mindless, foolishest, most dull-witted, most slow-witted, most witless, slowest, most simple-minded, most empty-headed, most vacuous, most vapid, most idiotic, most moronic, most imbecilic, most imbecile, most doltish, most gullible, most naive, most oafish, most addle-brained, most nitwitted, stolidest, most opaque, stupidest, most unsmart, most deficient, simplest, flattest, roundest, stubbiest, thickest, most rounded, most stubbed, most pointless, most unkeen, frankest, directest, candidest, honestest, baldest, starkest … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The bluntest criticism of Morgan's failure came from the bank's own chief executive, Jamie Dimon.”
      “In general, the criminal law is the bluntest area of law and, therefore, not the most appropriate means to deal with HIV transmission.”
      “She outmanned many of them: she was the toughest negotiator, the bluntest adversary, the nerviest deal-maker.”
blunted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of blunt
  2. Synonyms:
      3. deadened, dulled, reduced, lessened, diminished, moderated, eased, softened, allayed, assuaged, decreased, relieved, alleviated, tempered, numbed, abated, soothed, mollified, benumbed, attenuated, dampened, desensitised, desensitized, damped, undermined, calmed, diluted, appeased, muffled, cooled, slaked, sated, cauterised, cauterized, thinned, obtunded, hebetated, toned down, took the edge off, taken the edge off, watered down, put a damper on, mitigated, lightened, quelled, stifled, palliated, checked, subdued, lowered … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The blade was ten inches long, and an inch and a half broad, but with a very blunted edge.”
blunting
  1. present participle of blunt
  2. Synonyms:
      3. deadening, dulling, reducing, lessening, diminishing, moderating, easing, softening, allaying, assuaging, decreasing, relieving, alleviating, tempering, numbing, abating, soothing, mollifying, benumbing, attenuating, dampening, desensitising, desensitizing, damping, undermining, calming, diluting, appeasing, muffling, cooling, slaking, sating, cauterising, cauterizing, thinning, obtunding, hebetating, toning down, taking the edge off, watering down, putting a damper on, mitigating, lightening, quelling, stifling, palliating, checking, subduing, lowering, suppressing … more
bluntened
  1. simple past tense and past participle of blunten
bluntening
  1. present participle of blunten
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