Antonyms for blunted


Grammar : Verb
Spell : bluhnt
Phonetic Transcription : blÊŒnt


Definition of blunted

Origin :
  • c.1200, "dull, obtuse," perhaps from or related to Old Norse blundra (see blunder (v.)). Of tools or weapons, late 14c. Meaning "abrupt of speech or manner" is from 1580s.
  • verb make dull
Example sentences :
  • His uneasiness, his exasperation, his scorn were blunted at last by all these trying hours.
  • Extract from : « Under Western Eyes » by Joseph Conrad
  • Some of the finest intellects in the world have been blunted by liquor.
  • Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • His feelings had become so blunted that he did not care how soon he was shot in the back.
  • Extract from : « Victory » by Joseph Conrad
  • A blunted peak and a low black line, from the glittering waste of snow.
  • Extract from : « Alcyone » by Archibald Lampman
  • They had, in effect, a ready-made craft not unlike a canoe with blunted bows.
  • Extract from : « Storm Over Warlock » by Andre Norton
  • His own offence counted as naught, so blunted was his moral sense.
  • Extract from : « Rabbi and Priest » by Milton Goldsmith
  • It is a wrong to whose acuteness we are blunted by familiarity.
  • Extract from : « The Negro and the Nation » by George S. Merriam
  • Before 1872 the keenness of Northern radicalism was blunted.
  • Extract from : « The New Nation » by Frederic L. Paxson
  • As I told you, in the presence of so much death the sensibilities are blunted.
  • Extract from : « The Johnstown Horror » by James Herbert Walker
  • Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
  • Extract from : « Familiar Quotations » by John Bartlett

Synonyms for blunted

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