Examples of “obtuse” in a Sentence

adj Slow to understand or notice things that seem obvious to others.

• He was being deliberately obtuse, pretending not to see the point.

adj Of an angle: greater than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees.

• The roof formed an obtuse angle where the two slopes met.

adj Blunt or rounded rather than sharp or pointed.

• The leaf has an obtuse tip rather than a pointed one.