English-Dutch translations for blunt

• bot
  Ze speculeren in de naam van God, nogal bot gezegd. They are speculating in the name of God, to put it bluntly.
  Wij stellen niet een bot instrument als economische sancties voor. We are not proposing the blunt instrument of economic sanctions.
  Om het cynisch en bot te zeggen: er is geen grote politieke druk. Putting it cynically and bluntly, there is not so much political pressure.
• onbewimpeld
• onverbloemd
  Wat wij dus willen weten is of de heer McCreevy, als hij zijn mening geeft, inderdaad onverbloemd en zonder eromheen te draaien zegt wat de heer Barroso niet in het openbaar durft zeggen. We therefore want to know whether, when Mr McCreevy expresses his opinion, he in fact says bluntly and without beating about the bush what Mr Barroso does not dare to say in public.
• plotsklaps
• stomp

Definition of blunt

• Having a thick edge or point; not sharp
• Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute
• Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech
• Hard to impress or penetrate
• Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive
• A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip
• A marijuana cigar
• money
• A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave
• To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt

Examples

• the blunt admission that he had never liked my company
• It blunted my appetite.
• My feeling towards her have been blunted.

Related words

• bluntly
• bluntness
• blunten
• Bluntisham
• blunt instrument
• blunt body
• blunt ends
• blunt end
• blunt angle