obtuse
ob toohs
- a of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees
- s (of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex
- s lacking in insight or discernment
too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior - s slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse
- He was normally stupid but the dumb decision he took was really very obtuse.
- The point is that the current breathless talk about bank nationalization is more than a little historically obtuse.
- So they often seemed strident, ideological and morally obtuse.