Textual thesaurus for "obtuse"

(adj) dim, dense, dull, dumb, slow

slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

so dense he never understands anything I say to him; never met anyone quite so dim; although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick- Thackeray; dumb officials make some really dumb decisions; he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse; worked with the slow students

(adj) purblind

lacking in insight or discernment

too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior; a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin- Jasper Griffin