bluntness
blunt
verb[ T ]
uk /blʌnt/ us /blʌnt/
to make something less sharp使变钝
to make a feeling less strong: 使（情感）减弱
My recent bad experience has blunted my enthusiasm for travel.最近的倒霉经历已经使我对旅游的热情减弱了不少。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Sharp and blunt
among
angularity
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jag
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keen
point
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prickly
razor-sharp
sharp
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sharply
spiked
spikily
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Becoming and making less strong
blunt
noun[ C ]
uk /blʌnt/ us /blʌnt/
slang
a large cigarette or cigar containing the drug cannabis大麻烟卷

Examples

Kids are coming across blunts, pills, other illegal drugs and booze in their classrooms, lockers, bathrooms and playfields.
Smoking blunts is becoming a common practice with teenagers.
They would just sit for hours at a time, smoke as many blunts as their system could handle.
Officers observed two partially smoked marijuana blunts in the room.
"I tell students that joints, cigars and blunts have seven times more tar than cigarettes," he said.

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blunt | American Dictionary

blunt
adjective
us/blʌnt/

bluntadjective (DIRECT IN SPEECH)

saying what you think without trying to be polite or caring about other people’s feelings:
blunt criticism
Blunt and outspoken, he often quarreled with fellow officials.

bluntadjective (NOT SHARP)

[ -er/-est only ]
not having a sharp edge or point:
Use a blunt instrument to smash the ginger and onion into the garlic.

bluntly

adverbus/ˈblʌnt·li/
He is, to put it bluntly, a big bore.
blunt
verb[ T ]
us/blʌnt/

bluntverb[T] (MAKE LESS STRONG)

to make something less strongly felt:
Eating between meals will blunt your appetite.

Examples of blunt

blunt
Our model describes the normal impact of a blunt body on a shallow layer of liquid of uniform initial thickness.
The literature is full of unproven claims about what is a good feature - and equally blunt statements to the opposite.
The egg suspension was administered orally to mice by using a syringe fitted with a blunt needle.
Clinical diagnosis is confirmed through microscopic visualization of the mite, which may be extracted from a burrow with a blunt needle.
Two considerations may help to blunt any such criticism even if they do not remove all legitimate concern.
Dynamically speaking, one expects for v1 = 0.6 less concentration of vorticity around the blunt tips.
To be blunt about it, lawyers are emotionally erratic and singularly ill-trained to adjudicate the nuances of friendship or the affective intensities between friends.
The seemingly endless multiplication of voices crying for aid tends to blunt the compassion of an increasingly indifferent and cynical public in the developed world.
We cannot fully exclude the possibility that the tendency to blunted cortisol responses in the patient group has been influenced by benzodiazepine use.
Close examination of cranial squama and major joint surfaces turned up no evidence of blunt-force trauma or cut marks.
The author wields the blunt instruments of ' ' political transaction costs ' ' and ' ' induced ideological change ' ' at frequent intervals, inflicting substantial transaction costs on the reader.
As seen in flow field photographs, a thermal has a mushroom-like appearance, with a blunted nearly hemispherical cap.
The mesosome has a slender, smooth, blunt-tipped, long projection and a short pointed one (fig. 13, b).
Further, consider the flow about a blunt-nosed slender body in high-speed flight (figure 2).
Chaotic or unpredictable schedules might be one factor contributing to the blunted daytime pattern noted for some populations of children.
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