obtuse

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.

   “For we see a Feather or a Rush drawn along the Lip or Cheek, doth tickle; whereas a thing more obtuse, or a touch more hard, doth not.”

2. sıfat Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.

   “The Herb Pantagruelion hath a little Root somewhat hard and ruff, roundish, terminating in an obtuse and very blunt Point, and having some of its Veins, Strings or Filaments coloured with some spots of white, […]”

3. sıfat Larger than one, and smaller than two right angles, equivalently more than 90° and less than 180°.

   “More-over, as the Buildings Ambligon / May more receive then Mansions Oxigon / (Because th' acute, and the rect-Angles too, / Stride not so wide as obtuse Angles doe) / So doth the Circle in his Circuit span / More room then any other Figure can.”

4. sıfat Obtuse-angled, having an obtuse angle.

   “Unless A lies in that part of a semi-infinite strip bounded by AB outside a semi-circle of diameter AB, the triangle is obtuse, so that the probability of getting an obtuse triangle is equal to 1.”

5. sıfat Intellectually dull or dim-witted.

   “When the elder Osborne gave what he called "a hint," there was no possibility for the most obtuse to mistake his meaning. He called kicking a footman downstairs a hint to the latter to leave his service.”

6. sıfat Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.
7. sıfat Indirect or circuitous.
8. fiil To dull or reduce an emotion or a physical state.

   “Fouler. To tread, ſtampe, or trample on; to bruiſe, or cruſh, by ſtamping; hurt, or obtuſe, by treading on; […]”