Crossword-Solution: BLUNT 5 letters, 135 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Blunt	a.	Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.
Blunt	a.	Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute.
Blunt	a.	Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
Blunt	a.	Hard to impress or penetrate.
Blunt	v. t.	To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
Blunt	v. t.	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.
Blunt	n.	A fencer's foil.
Blunt	n.	A short needle with a strong point. See Needle.
Blunt	n.	Money.

We have 135 clues for the answer “BLUNT”

Clue	Answers
"You're Beautiful" singer James	1 answer
*Not pointed ... and the start of an eight-step word ladder	1 answer
Brutally honest	1 answer
Disconcertingly direct	1 answer
Disconcertingly frank	1 answer
Dull-edged	1 answer
Far from beating around the bush	1 answer
First Officer ___ (role-playing character who always speaks their mind on "The Rehearsal")	1 answer
Free-spoken	1 answer
From the hip	1 answer
Harshly forthright	1 answer
Insultingly honest, perhaps	1 answer
Lacking a sharp edge	1 answer
Less than tactful	1 answer
Like a dull knife	1 answer
Like a foil	1 answer
Like a used pencil	1 answer
Like an %C3%A9p%C3%A9e's point	1 answer
Like an épée's point	1 answer
Not at all diplomatic	1 answer
Not for the thin-skinned	1 answer
Not pulling any punches	1 answer
Not pussy-footing	1 answer
Not sharp, as a pencil	1 answer
Not sharp, as a pencil or knife	1 answer
Not too tactful	1 answer
Outspokenly frank	1 answer
Painfully forthright	1 answer
Painfully frank	1 answer
Short on finesse	1 answer
The Devil Wears Prada actress Emily	1 answer
To the point ... or not pointed	1 answer
To the point, ironically	1 answer
Unceremonious - dull	1 answer
Uncompromisingly direct	1 answer
Unpleasant sort, slangily	1 answer
Very direct	1 answer
Mincing no words	2 answers
Needing sharpening	2 answers
Without an edge	2 answers
MAKE less sensitive	3 answers
MAKE less sharp	3 answers
Pulling no punches	3 answers
Telling it like it is	3 answers
hebetate	3 answers
blunted	4 answers
Obtund	5 answers
Not mincing words	6 answers
Plain-spoken	8 answers
Make less Intense	9 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

RETEA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with BLUNT (5)

For what this separation is done, I do not know, unless it be to hinder the development of the child’s affection toward its mother, and to blunt and destroy the natural affection of the mother for the child.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

Because a plain blunt man, who has never been taught concealment, speaks out his mind without exactly intending it, he’s to be snapped off like the son of a sinner.” “Indeed there’s no such case between us,” she said, turning away.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

The labels often used on the sides of {macrotape} reels, so called because they are shaped roughly like blunt-ended bananas.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

When it was formed, Monroe Trotter refused to join it, claiming that its white membership would blunt its efficiency and militancy.

The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008

The Black Knight thanked his deliverers with a dignity they had not observed in his former bearing, which hitherto had seemed rather that of a blunt bold soldier, than of a person of exalted rank.

Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993

Quotes with BLUNT (3)

Small Moth... She's slicing ripe white peachesinto the Tony the Tiger bowland dropping slivers for the dogpoised vibrating by her foot to stop their fallwhen she spots it, camouflaged, a glimmer and then full on-happiness, plashing blunt soft wingsinside her as if it wantsto escape again.

Sarah Lindsay

Well,” she finally said, “he’s coming back shortly, so you are absolved of your responsibilities.” “No.” The word came from him like an oath, emerging from the very core of his being. She looked at him in impatient confusion. “What do you mean?” He stepped forward. He wasn’t sure what he was doing. He knew only that he couldn’t stop. “I mean no. I don’t want to be absolved.” Her lips parted. He took another step. His heart was pounding, and something within him had gone hot, …

Julia Quinn Just Like Heaven

Easter is a marvelous affirmation of the genius of our design, but it is likewise the blunt acknowledgement that left to its own devices, the genius of our design will result in the destruction of our lives.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 74 times in crossword archives (1970–2025).