blunt (v.)
- abate
- allay
- alleviate
- anesthetize
- assuage
- attemper
- attenuate
- bate
- bedaze
- benumb
- besot
- bluff
- blur
- bread
- brief
- cabbage
- chasten
- chill
- chips
- chloroform
- cold
- coldcock
- constrain
- control
- cool
- cramp
- cripple
- damp
- dampen
- de-emphasize
- deaden
- debilitate
- deflect
- desensitize
- deter
- devitalize
- dim
- diminish
- direct
- disable
- disaffect
- discourage
- disincline
- distract
- divert
- dope
- downplay
- drug
- dull
- efface
- enervate
- enfeeble
- etherize
- eviscerate
- exhaust
- extenuate
- frank
- free
- freeze
- indispose
- jack
- kayo
- lay
- lenify
- lessen
- lighten
- mitigate
- moderate
- modulate
- mollify
- mull
- narcotize
- numb
- obscure
- obtund
- open
- palliate
- palsy
- paralyze
- plain
- quench
- rattle
- reduce
- repel
- repress
- restrain
- rough
- round
- rude
- sap
- severe
- shake
- sharp
- short
- slacken
- slow
- smother
- sober
- soften
- soothe
- stifle
- stun
- stupefy
- subdue
- suppress
- tame
- temper
- turn
- unbrace
- undermine
- underplay
- unman
- unnerve
- unstring
- weaken
blunt (adj.)
- abrupt
- aggressive
- arctic
- artless
- attenuate
- autistic
- bate
- bearish
- beastly
- bluff
- blunted
- brash
- bread
- brief
- broad
- brusque
- candid
- catatonic
- cavalier
- childlike
- chilly
- churlish
- cold
- cold-blooded
- coldhearted
- confiding
- cool
- crusty
- curt
- damp
- dim
- dim-witted
- direct
- discourteous
- dispassionate
- dopey
- downright
- drugged
- dull
- dulled
- edgeless
- emotionless
- eviscerate
- explicit
- forthright
- frank
- free
- free-spoken
- freehanded
- frigid
- frosted
- frosty
- frozen
- genuine
- gruff
- guileless
- harsh
- heart-to-heart
- heartless
- heavy
- icy
- immovable
- impassive
- impolite
- inconsiderate
- indelicate
- ingenuous
- innocent
- insensitive
- insusceptible
- jack
- lay
- moderate
- naive
- numb
- objective
- obscure
- obtuse
- open
- openhearted
- outspoken
- passionless
- plain
- pointless
- rough
- round
- rounded
- rude
- self-absorbed
- severe
- sharp
- short
- simple
- sincere
- single-minded
- slow
- slow-witted
- sluggish
- smoothed
- sober
- soulless
- spiritless
- straight
- straight-out
- straightforward
- surly
- tame
- thoughtless
- transparent
- truculent
- trustful
- trusting
- turn
- unaffectionate
- unceremonious
- unchecked
- uncivil
- uncomplicated
- uncompromising
- unconstrained
- undiplomatic
- unemotional
- unequivocal
- unfeeling
- ungracious
- unguarded
- unimpassioned
- unimpressionable
- unloving
- unpointed
- unreserved
- unresponsive
- unrestrained
- unsharpened
- unsophisticated
- unsusceptible
- unsuspicious
- unsympathetic
- untouchable
- unwary
- wooden
- worn
