obtuse
adjective /əbˈtjuːs/
/əbˈtuːs/
- (formal, disapproving) slow or unwilling to understand something
迟钝的;愚蠢的;态度勉强的 - Are you being deliberately obtuse?
你是不是故意装傻? - Perhaps I’m being obtuse, but what has all this got to do with me?
也许我很迟钝,但这一切与我有什么关系? - He was either completely ignorant or being wilfully obtuse.
他要么完全无知,要么故意装傻。 - She was the most obtuse person I’d ever met.
她是我见过的最迟钝的人。
Collocations DictionaryObtuse is used with these nouns:- angle
- Are you being deliberately obtuse?
- [usually before noun] (geometry
) (of an angle几何 ) between 90° and 180°角 compare acute (6)钝角
词源late Middle English (referring to something that is blunt): from Latin obtusus, past participle of obtundere ‘beat against’, from ob- ‘against’ + tundere ‘to beat’.