Explore Obtuse through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like acute or slow. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Obtuse in a sentence
Obtuse meaning
- Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
- Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.
Obtuse vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Obtuse
- The main meaning on this page is: Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form. | Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form. | Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.
- Useful related words include: acute, slow, dumb, dull.
- Possible Dutch translations are: bot.
- In the example corpus, obtuse often appears in combinations such as: obtuse and, and obtuse, or obtuse.
Context around Obtuse
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 12 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Obtuse
- In this selection, "obtuse" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, imagery, something, writing, people, music and fillers stand out and add context to how "obtuse" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include actually as obtuse as fans and and culturally obtuse. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "obtuse" sits close to words such as abstention, acadiana and actuarial, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with obtuse
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Obtuse people gonna be obtuse I guess. (7 words)
Why such obtuse stick-to-it-iveness? (7 words)
And it’s easy to indulge yourself by writing obtuse music. (11 words)
It is obtuse, if not extremely naïve, for one identifying himself as a socialist to indulge in the Capitalist cultural brainwashing of our youth like Zambia’s leader of the Socialist party is doing. (34 words)
The only way to survive Monopoly with your sanity intact is to either steal from the bank so that you can quickly, win, or make deliberately obtuse moves so that you can quickly lose. (34 words)
In an effort to help out the population, Yeltsin rolled out an obtuse program to give each citizen a “voucher” good for the equivalent of $40 to be used as they saw fit. (33 words)
Why such obtuse stick-to-it-iveness? (7 words)
Example sentences (20)
Obtuse people gonna be obtuse I guess.
George is not an unintelligent man, so there is definitely a reason for him being so obtuse and unwilling to truly take on what Charlotte is saying.
Slightly more obtuse, but probably a shortening of Dry Wood was Dryood.
His dirges and satires are bold and blunt; they swap the indirection of imagery, obtuse or otherwise, for the snap of metre and rhyme.
His opinions may have been obtuse, but he was grounded in facts and reason.
It is obtuse, if not extremely naïve, for one identifying himself as a socialist to indulge in the Capitalist cultural brainwashing of our youth like Zambia’s leader of the Socialist party is doing.
Paul joked he'd need to follow the movie with something "obtuse" to get balance back in his life.
And it’s easy to indulge yourself by writing obtuse music.
Bachelor Twitter is full of all the great, overly dramatic moments without the obtuse fillers that the producers string in between.
However, it is worded in such an obtuse manner that this misinterpretation of the executive order will likely be universal in Texas.
Imagine if the original were actually as obtuse as fans often say it is.
It turns out that he was not, and that most of that intelligence was manufactured or willfully obtuse.
The only way to survive Monopoly with your sanity intact is to either steal from the bank so that you can quickly, win, or make deliberately obtuse moves so that you can quickly lose.
These companies have habitually made avoidable and obtuse errors in a number of areas, such as personal privacy.
I am hoping you can give me guidance on how my wife and I can deal with my in-laws and the fact that they are sometimes socially obtuse.
In an effort to help out the population, Yeltsin rolled out an obtuse program to give each citizen a “voucher” good for the equivalent of $40 to be used as they saw fit.
In fact, the piece was so completely obtuse, it almost feels as if it’s pure linkbait from one of Thought Catalog’s resident trolls.
Mulherin had no patience for obtuse; she liked pieces that were tactile, funny, unfinished.
Together, they're shifting the locus of coolness to a part of Seattle that, in recent years, had become a playground for the rich and culturally obtuse.
Why such obtuse stick-to-it-iveness?
Common combinations with obtuse
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- obtuse and 5×
- and obtuse 4×
- or obtuse 3×
- be obtuse 2×
- more obtuse 2×
- obtuse but 2×
- is obtuse 2×
- obtuse if 2×
- the obtuse 2×
- an obtuse 2×