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Synonyms for obtusely

Grammar : Adv
Spell : uhb-toos, -tyoos
Phonetic Transcription : əbˈtus, -ˈtyus

Définition of obtusely

Origin :
  • early 15c., "dull, blunted," from Middle French obtus (fem. obtuse), from Latin obtusus "blunted, dull," also used figuratively, past participle of obtundere "to beat against, make dull," from ob "against" (see ob-) + tundere "to beat," from PIE *(s)tud-e- "to beat, strike, push, thrust," from root *(s)teu- "to push, stick, knock, beat" (cf. Latin tudes "hammer," Sanskrit tudati "he thrusts"). Sense of "stupid" is first found c.1500. Related: Obtusely; obtuseness.
  • adv stupidly
Example sentences :
  • The caps were obtusely convex and of a grayish rufescent color.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • Seventh cervical: Spine as high as the arch, obtusely pointed.
  • Extract from : « The Beaked Whales of the Family Ziphidae » by Frederick True
  • Occasionally the body-whorl is obtusely carinated just below the suture.
  • Extract from : « The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide » by Augusta Foote Arnold
  • "She isn't poor; she is very well off," says Mr. Kelly, obtusely.
  • Extract from : « Rossmoyne » by Unknown
  • "I suppose we might go inside, too," suggested Sylvia obtusely.
  • Extract from : « A Hoosier Chronicle » by Meredith Nicholson
  • The windows are placed under widely splayed, obtusely pointed four centred arches.
  • Extract from : « Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester » by Thomas Perkins
  • The sloe-leaf (and also the white-thorn leaf,) as shewn in this sketch, is more rounded, and the leaf is obtusely pointed.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons » by Fredrick Accum
  • The fruit or capsule is obtusely three-cornered, and about the size of a hazel-nut; it contains three cells each enclosing a seed.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 » by Various
  • Corolla cylindraceous-urn-shaped and soon bell-shaped, obtusely 4-lobed.
  • Extract from : « The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States » by Asa Gray
  • The more delicately dignified and civilly frosty one is to him, the more grossly familiar and hopelessly, obtusely friendly is he.
  • Extract from : « Nancy » by Rhoda Broughton

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