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bluntish

bluntish adjective: somewhat blunt.

Adjective

bluntish (comparative more bluntish, superlative most bluntish)

  1. Somewhat blunt.
    • They spent hours laboriously chopping wood with bluntish axes.
    • […] at nine years, the foremost teeth shew longer, yellower, and fouler than before; and the tushes become bluntish […]1759, “Horsemanship”, in A New Universal History of Arts and Sciences, volume 2, London: J. Coote, page 97

Examples of bluntish in a sentence

  • I was trying to shave with a bluntish razor-blade while the water ran into the bath.1939, George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, Part I, Chapter 1:
  • The rather bluntish cast of his face was even blunter and plainer.1950, Mervyn Peake, “78, IV”, in Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:

Forms of bluntish

comparativemore bluntish
superlativemost bluntish

Origin of bluntish

From blunt + -ish.

Words formed from bluntish

Questions about bluntish

What does bluntish mean?
Bluntish means somewhat blunt.
How do you use bluntish in a sentence?
I was trying to shave with a bluntish razor-blade while the water ran into the bath.
What part of speech is bluntish?
Bluntish is an adjective.

Words near bluntish in the dictionary

  1. blunters
  2. bluntest
  3. blunteth
  4. blunting
  5. bluntings
  6. bluntish
  7. Bluntisham
  8. bluntishly
  9. bluntishness
  10. bluntly
  11. bluntness

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