(formal, disapproving) slow or unwilling to understand sth:
Are you being deliberately obtuse? * Perhaps I'm being obtuse, but what has all this got to do with me?
obtuseness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for obtuse is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is obtuse a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, obtuse is tagged as adjective.
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