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Synonyms for unblunted
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : bluhnt |
| Phonetic Transcription : blʌnt |
Top 10 synonyms for unblunted Other synonyms for the word unblunted
- aciculate
- acuate
- acuminate
- acuminous
- apical
- barbed
- briery
- cuspate
- cuspidate
- fine
- gnawing
- ground fine
- honed
- horned
- incisive
- jagged
- keen
- keen-edged
- knife-edged
- knifelike
- lancinating
- needle-pointed
- needlelike
- observant
- peaked
- penetrating
- perceptive
- piercing
- pointed
- pointy
- prickly
- pronged
- quick-witted
- razor-sharp
- salient
- sardonic
- satirical
- serrated
- sharp-edged
- shooting
- spiked
- spiky
- spiny
- splintery
- stabbing
- tapered
- tapering
- tart
- thorny
- tined
- tipped
- trenchant
- unblunted
- whetted
Définition of unblunted
Origin :- c.1200, "dull, obtuse," perhaps from or related to Old Norse blundra (see blunder (v.)). Of tools or weapons, late 14c. Meaning "abrupt of speech or manner" is from 1580s.
- As in keen : adj sharp, piercing
- As in sharp : adj knifelike, cutting
- As in knifelike : adj sharp
- As in lancinating : adj sharp
- As in stabbing : adj sharp
- Rabelais is the literary exponent of the earlier Renaissance, with its appetite for the good things of the world as yet unblunted.
- Extract from : « A Short History of French Literature » by George Saintsbury
- Kakunai jumped as if some one had thrust the unblunted end of a spear into his posteriors.
- Extract from : « Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House) » by James S. De Benneville
- I lay down to sleep, and woke again with an unblunted sense of my surroundings.
- Extract from : « In the South Seas » by Robert Louis Stevenson
- He had adapted himself to the manners of the town; but he still had a most nervous conscience, sharp, unblunted.
- Extract from : « Cape of Storms » by Percival Pollard
Antonyms for unblunted
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