obtuseness
91bluntness — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of sharpness Nouns bluntness, dullness; obtundity; obtuseness. Verbs blunt, full, take off the edge or point of, obtund. Adjectives blunt, dull, edgeless, obtundent, unpointed, unsharpened; obtuse.… …
92density — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Compactness Nouns 1. density, denseness, solidity, solidness; impenetrability, impermeability; incompressibility; imporosity; cohesion (see coherence); constipation; consistency, spissitude; specific… …
93distinction — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. difference, separateness, variation; discrimination; dignity, refinement, elegance; eminence, importance, repute. See taste, fashion, speciality. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The act or quality of noticing… …
94ignorance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of knowledge Nouns 1. ignorance, nescience; illiteracy; darkness, blindness; incomprehension, inexperience, simplicity, simpleness, innocence; stupidity; unawareness. See folly, insanity,… …
95impassive — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. stolid, phlegmatic, stoical, calm, undemonstrative. See insensibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. indifferent, apathetic, stoic, stolid, phlegmatic, callous, sedate, insensitive, emotionless; see… …
96silly — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. witless, foolish, stupid, childish; fatuous, inane; senseless, absurd, ridiculous; stunned. See absurdity, credulity, folly. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. senseless, ridiculous, nonsensical, foolish,… …
97stupid — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. slow witted, dull, obtuse; benumbed, bemused; absurd, inane; banal, tiresome, tedious, dull. See ignorance, credulity, folly.Ant., smart, witty. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Foolish] Syn. senseless,… …
98obscure — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Vague] Syn. indistinct, vague, ambiguous, indeterminate, indefinite, enigmatic, cryptic, equivocal, unintelligible, impenetrable, inscrutable, unfathomable, unclear, insoluble, involved, uncertain, indecisive, undefined …
99stupidity — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Dullness of mind] Syn. stupor, stupefaction, apathy, slowness, inertia, heaviness, obtuseness, sluggishness, stolidity, feeble mindedness, folly, weakness, silliness, nonsense, absurdity, imbecility, imprudence, lunacy,… …
100obtuse — ob|tuse [əbˈtju:s US ˈtu:s] adj formal [Date: 1500 1600; : Latin; Origin: obtusus blunt , from obtundere to beat against, make blunt ] slow to understand things, in a way that is annoying ▪ But why? said Charles, being deliberately obtuse.… …
