obtuse

IPA: ɑbtˈus

(now chiefly botany, zoology) Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
(botany, zoology) Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.
(geometry, specifically, of an angle) Larger than one, and smaller than two right angles, or more than 90° and less than 180°.
(geometry, by ellipsis) Obtuse-angled, having an obtuse angle.
Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.
Indirect or circuitous.

Examples of "obtuse" in Sentences

All he’s doing is what all of you phonies do – speak in obtuse generalities.
You need a new thesaurus, your reliance on the word obtuse is getting annoying.
“I don’t much like hearing him called obtuse and superficial, but I suppose I should like still less to hear Sybell praise him.
"I don't much like hearing him called obtuse and superficial, but I suppose I should like still less to hear Sybell praise him.
If you can't see how even the most resolutely period-costumed production of Don Carlos maybe just might have some pertinence to current political realities, then you're just plain obtuse.
Scalia rejected what he called the "obtuse" argument by the attorneys for consumers who challenged CompuCredit that Congress had not intended for companies to force disputes into binding arbitration.
Oh and maybe the reason they’re all quite obtuse is that being in a chick-lit novel themselves they never read chick-lit, or seen a chick-flick and so don’t come to recognise the signals like the rest of us?
You get into the story for a couple of pages, then you realize that the characters are too bizarre, the world-view does not fit, the plot does not compute, and even the words themselves that author uses are baroque, esoteric, obtuse ... in other words, if you approach it lightly, Chabon's prose is not going to make much sense.