Obtuse

a.	1.	Not pointed or acute; blunt; - applied esp. to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees.
	2.	Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; not alert, especially to the feelings of others; dull; stupid; as, obtuse senses.
	3.	Dull; deadened; as, obtuse sound.

Adj.	1.	obtuse - of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees Antonyms: acute - of an angle; less than 90 degrees
	2.	obtuse - of a leaf shape; rounded at the apex
	3.	obtuse - lacking in insight or discernment; "too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior"; "a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin"- Jasper Griffin Synonyms: purblind
	4.	obtuse - slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students" Synonyms: dumb, slow, dense, dim, dull

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