Clues for the word "OBTUSE"
We've had 97 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 145 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on March 05, 2026.
Definition of obtuse
- superl. - Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees.
- superl. - Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; dull; stupid; as, obtuse senses.
- superl. - Dull; deadened; as, obtuse sound.
Referring Clues
- Far from sharp
- Hardly brainy
- More than 90°
- Kind of triangle
- Blunt
- Slow on the uptake
- Dull
- Not exactly insightful
- Dense
- Thick
- Not sharp
- Thickheaded
- Greater than 90°, as an angle
- Slow to learn
- More than 90°, or less than tactful
- A few bricks short of a load
- Wide angle designation
- Insensitive
- Not the sharpest knife in the drawer
- Like a triangle with one angle between 90° and 180°
- Like angles between 90 and 180 degrees
- Slow
- Boorish
- Incapable of insight
- Greater than 90 degrees, as an angle
- Thick as a brick
- Lacking in insight
- Greater than 90 degrees
- Like an angle greater than 90 degrees
- Slow to catch on
- More than right, in triangles
- Slow to understand
- Slow to understand
- None too bright
- Slow-witted
- Not too bright
- Doltish
- Like some angles
- Thick skulled
- Angle that's greater than 90 degrees
- Dimwitted
- None to bright
- Dozy
- Unobservant
- More than 90 degrees
- Dull-witted
- Perpendicular plus
- Thick-sculled
- Stupid baronet plunged in river
- Dopey
- Slow boat unloaded in river
- Thick fat - needs heart replacing by Tuesday
- Dull-witted, note, after punishing bouts
- Stupid old boy wants boiled suet
- Stupid to be moving us into it
- (Of angle) between 90° and 180° - dull
- But so off key it's just stupid
- Not a clever sort of angle
- More than right, but stupid!
- Stupid
- Mentally slow - kind of angle
- Stupid wombats periodically take stuff
- Insensitive - more than a right angle
- Insensitive rendering of "bust" in Old English
- To ring telephones for custom is insensitive
- Dull-witted baronet drowned in river
- Mentally slow
- Angle of density
- Dull and insensitive perhaps, but so English!
- Dull, non-perceptive
- Blunt, dull-witted
- Stupid being blunt
- Mentally slow, not sharp
- Basket emptied into river? That's stupid
- Hardly plumb stupid
- Type of angle
- Stupid to be so worried about you crossing the Channel
- Kind of angle
- Dull books about British employment
- Not so sharp
- Stupid type of angle
- Far from perceptive
- Rather thick
- Not the sharpest tool in the shed
- Slow-witted when it comes to geometry?
- Silly sort of angle?
- But so ludicrously English it's stupid
- Stupid sort of angle
- Not at all alert
- Too stupid to get the right angle?
- Too thick to get the right angle?
- Over 90 degrees, in a way
- More than right ... or seldom correct?
- Opposite of acute, for an angle
- Rather dense
- Angle type
- Like an angle between 90º and 180º
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 05, 2026
- Mirror Mini - January 19, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - July 31, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 07, 2025
- Mirror Mini - January 19, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 09, 2024
- LA Times - September 10, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 07, 2024
- LA Times - August 11, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 25, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - July 31, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 17, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - October 01, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - September 07, 2022
- LA Times - July 09, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - July 08, 2022
- USA Today - June 30, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - June 16, 2022
- New York Times - November 24, 2021
- Mirror Mini - January 19, 2018
- Netword - January 04, 2018
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 27, 2017
- Guardian Quick - December 08, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 27, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 24, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - October 10, 2017
- Guardian Quick - October 02, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 15, 2017
- And in 115 more crossword puzzles...