- (formal, disapproving)
slow or unwilling to understand something 迟钝的；愚蠢的；态度勉强的 Are you being deliberately obtuse? 你是不是故意装傻？ Perhaps I’m being obtuse, but what has all this got to do with me? 也许我很迟钝，但这一切与我有什么关系？ He was either completely ignorant or being wilfully obtuse. 他要么完全无知，要么故意装傻。 She was the most obtuse person I’d ever met. 她是我见过的最迟钝的人。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryObtuse is used with these nouns:- angle
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geometry 几何 (of an angle 角 between 90° and 180° 钝角
Word Originlate Middle English (referring to something that is blunt): from Latin obtusus, past participle of obtundere ‘beat against’, from ob- ‘against’ + tundere ‘to beat’.