blunt

/blʌnt//blʌnt/
🔵 Intermediate

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Difficulty LevelIntermediate

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Word FrequencyVery Common

Used frequently in everyday conversation

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noun

1. A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.

2. A short needle with a strong point.

3. (smoking) A marijuana cigar.

"2005: to make his point, lead rapper B-Real fired up a blunt in front of the cameras and several hundred thousand people and announced, “I'm taking a hit for every one of y'all!” — Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, p. 461)"

4. Money

5. A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.

adjective

1. Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.

2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.

3. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.

"the blunt admission that he had never liked my company"

4. Hard to impress or penetrate.

5. Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.

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blunt

/blʌnt//blʌnt/
🔵 Intermediate

Word Statistics

Difficulty LevelIntermediate

Standard vocabulary

Word FrequencyVery Common

Used frequently in everyday conversation

Syllables1

Simple pronunciation

Analysis:

  • Common vocabulary word
  • Simple pronunciation
verb

1. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.

2. To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of

"It blunted my appetite."

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