blunt
英検準1級率直な・鈍い
意味
- 切っ先の鈍い,なまくらの
- ぶっきらぼうな,無愛想な
- …を鈍くする,鈍らせる
- なまくらになる,鈍る
例文
This pencil is blunt. Have you got a sharpener?
この鉛筆の先ちびてる。鉛筆削りある？
Her words are blunt and harsh, and yet said with a sweet smile.
彼女はニコッとしながらきついことをさらっと言う。
He is very blunt in his manner.
彼の態度はすこぶる無骨だ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English blunt, blont, from Old English *blunt, probably of North Germanic origin, possibly related to Old Norse blunda (“to shut eyes, to doze”), related to blind (> Icelandic blunda, Swedish blunda, Danish blunde). Compare the Scandinavian-German munitons term blind (“non-live, dummy”), opposite of skarp (“live”, literally, “sharp”): Swedish and Danish blind patron (“dummy round”), Danish blindt skud, German blinder schuss (“dummy shot”), blinde granate (“dummy grenade”).