Crossword-Solution: OBTUSE 6 letters, 122 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Obtuse superl. Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles
greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees.
Obtuse superl. Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; dull;
stupid; as, obtuse senses.
Obtuse superl. Dull; deadened; as, obtuse sound.

We have 122 clues for the answer “OBTUSE”

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95 degrees, maybe 1 answer
Angle that's greater than 90 degrees 1 answer
Annoyingly imperceptive 1 answer
Between 90° and 180° 1 answer
Between right and straight 1 answer
Dense or dull 1 answer
Dull; dense 1 answer
Dumb as a doorknob 1 answer
Greater than 90 degrees 1 answer
Greater than 90 degrees, as an angle 1 answer
Greater than 90° and less than 180°. 1 answer
Greater than 90°, as an angle 1 answer
Hardly brainy 1 answer
Incapable of insight 1 answer
Just not getting it 1 answer
Lacking in insight 1 answer
Like a triangle with one angle between 90° and 180° 1 answer
Like an angle between 90° and 180° 1 answer
Like an angle greater than 90 degrees 1 answer
Like angles between 90 and 180 degrees 1 answer
More than 90 degrees 1 answer
More than 90° 1 answer
More than 90°, or less than tactful 1 answer
More than right 1 answer
More than right ... or seldom correct? 1 answer
More than right, in triangles 1 answer
Ninety-eight degrees, e.g. 1 answer
None to bright 1 answer
Not at all alert 1 answer
Not at all observant 1 answer
Not exactly insightful 1 answer
Not exactly quick 1 answer
Not perceptive. 1 answer
Not very astute 1 answer
Opposite of acute, for an angle 1 answer
Over 90 degrees, in a way 1 answer
Perpendicular plus 1 answer
Slow-witted when it comes to geometry? 1 answer
Thick skulled 1 answer
Thick-sculled 1 answer
Triangle that is not acute or right 1 answer
Wide angle designation 1 answer
Angle type 2 answers
Certain angle 2 answers
Far from sharp 2 answers
Rather thick 2 answers
Mentally slow 2 answers
Not very quick 2 answers
Slow to catch on 2 answers
Thick as a brick 2 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with OBTUSE (5)

Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; Ð opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
She’s made me,” Anna summed up, “feel as if I’d been dreadfully thick-skinned and obtuse!” “YOU?” “Yes.
The Reef Edith Wharton 1995
Boremore will never enter these obtuse entertainers’ heads, any more than that of trying to keep poor, defenceless Mrs.
The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory 2008
The fritillaria has five or six linear, obtuse leaves, put on irregularly near the bottom of the stem, which is usually terminated by one large bell-shaped flower; but its more beautiful companion, the erythronium, has two radical leaves only, which are large and oval, and shine like glass.
Steep Trails John Muir 1995
The disposition of the boy was sullen and reserved, and the village schoolmaster stigmatized him as obtuse in intellect; although, at a later period of life, he evinced ambition and very peculiar talents.
Twice-Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1996

Quotes with OBTUSE (3)

Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?”“Are you calling me stupid?”“Yes, but in a more poetic way!”“Well, here’s a poem for you. Get lost!
Colleen Houck
It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see...""You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?""No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.""Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."…
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Although, I admit, I desire, Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain: A certain minor light may still Lean incandescent Out of kitchen table or chair As if a celestial burning took Possession of the most obtuse objects now and then --
Sylvia Plath The Collected Poems
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 124 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).