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Definition

slow to learn or understand

too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior

How can she be so brilliantly incisive on one page and so infuriatingly obtuse on the next?
he was either stupid or being deliberately obtuse
It was as though his eyes were holding their breath, while his mother looked at him ... clairvoyant yet obtuse.
William Faulkner -- The Sound and the Fury

obtuse = slow to learn or understand

a bit obtuse
T.S. Eliot -- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

obtuse = slow to learn or understand

I saw that two of its iron angles were now acute—two, consequently, obtuse.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum
He remembered with what a callous selfishness his uncle had treated her, how obtuse he had been to her humble, devoted love.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
People who are not only weak, but silly or obtuse as well, are often in these difficulties.
George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion
And on this aspect you seem singularly obtuse.
C.S. Lewis -- The Screwtape Letters
Now, when he was on fire with his Cause, Arthur's justice seemed bourgeois and obtuse beside him.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
It is the systematic operation, which always and obtusely succeeds, the well-planned response to life's uncertainties and complications.
Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life
They were obtuse; their morale was good.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
Then Tjaden pretends to be obtuse.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
The truth about his remarkable fabrications, however, had not become known to Castleton, solely because of the Englishman's obtuseness.
Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars

(Editor's note: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.)

He imagines how obtuse and disconnected Cedric must feel.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
And Mom could be so insensitive, so clueless and obtuse.
Anne Tayler -- A Spool of Blue Thread
His obtuseness frustrated me.
Nicole Krauss -- The History of Love

(Editor's note: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.)

Again there was that deliberate obtuseness in me.
Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire

(Editor's note: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.)

The other corner was disproportionately obtuse.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
For there was one quality in Henry for which she was never prepared, however much she reminded herself of it: his obtuseness.
E.M. Forster -- Howards End

(Editor's note: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.)

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