See bluntness in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "bluntnes"
},
"expansion": "Middle English bluntnes",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "blunt",
"3": "-ness"
},
"expansion": "blunt + -ness",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English bluntnes, bluntnesse, equivalent to blunt + -ness.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bluntnesses",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "bluntness (countable and uncountable, plural bluntnesses)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ness",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Latvian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Macedonian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Manx translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Marathi translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
159,
168
]
],
"ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
189,
198
]
],
"ref": "1953, Ian Fleming, “The Secret Agent”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 7:",
"text": "James Bond suddenly knew that he was tired. He always knew when his body or his mind had had enough and he always acted on the knowledge. This helped him to avoid staleness and the sensual bluntness that breeds mistakes.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The characteristic of being blunt."
],
"id": "en-bluntness-en-noun-4KGe5i53",
"links": [
[
"blunt",
"blunt"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"word": "tylppyys"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"lang_code": "lv",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "trulums"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"lang_code": "mk",
"roman": "tápost",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "та́пост"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"lang_code": "mk",
"roman": "zatápenost",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "зата́пеност"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"lang_code": "gv",
"note": "of a point",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "neuvirrid"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"lang_code": "gv",
"note": "of tools",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"usually"
],
"word": "moandid"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"lang_code": "gv",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "moandys"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"lang_code": "gv",
"note": "of person, speech",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"usually"
],
"word": "bryntid"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"lang_code": "gv",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bryntys"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"lang_code": "gv",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "moalaght"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"lang_code": "gv",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "moalid"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"lang_code": "mr",
"roman": "bothṭapṇā",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "बोथटपणा"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"note": "of a person or action",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bezceremonialność"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "zatuplenije",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "затупление"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "tupovatostʹ",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "туповатость"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈblʌnt.nəs/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈblʌnt.nɪs/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈblʌnʔ.nɪs]",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "En-us-bluntness.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7c/En-us-bluntness.ogg/En-us-bluntness.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/En-us-bluntness.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌntnəs"
}
],
"word": "bluntness"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "bluntnes"
},
"expansion": "Middle English bluntnes",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "blunt",
"3": "-ness"
},
"expansion": "blunt + -ness",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English bluntnes, bluntnesse, equivalent to blunt + -ness.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bluntnesses",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "bluntness (countable and uncountable, plural bluntnesses)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms suffixed with -ness",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"Rhymes:English/ʌntnəs",
"Rhymes:English/ʌntnəs/2 syllables",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with Latvian translations",
"Terms with Macedonian translations",
"Terms with Manx translations",
"Terms with Marathi translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Russian translations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
159,
168
]
],
"ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
189,
198
]
],
"ref": "1953, Ian Fleming, “The Secret Agent”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 7:",
"text": "James Bond suddenly knew that he was tired. He always knew when his body or his mind had had enough and he always acted on the knowledge. This helped him to avoid staleness and the sensual bluntness that breeds mistakes.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The characteristic of being blunt."
],
"links": [
[
"blunt",
"blunt"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈblʌnt.nəs/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈblʌnt.nɪs/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈblʌnʔ.nɪs]",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "En-us-bluntness.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7c/En-us-bluntness.ogg/En-us-bluntness.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/En-us-bluntness.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌntnəs"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"word": "tylppyys"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"lang_code": "lv",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "trulums"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"lang_code": "mk",
"roman": "tápost",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "та́пост"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"lang_code": "mk",
"roman": "zatápenost",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "зата́пеност"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"lang_code": "gv",
"note": "of a point",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "neuvirrid"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"lang_code": "gv",
"note": "of tools",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"usually"
],
"word": "moandid"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"lang_code": "gv",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "moandys"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"lang_code": "gv",
"note": "of person, speech",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"usually"
],
"word": "bryntid"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"lang_code": "gv",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bryntys"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"lang_code": "gv",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "moalaght"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"lang_code": "gv",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "moalid"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"lang_code": "mr",
"roman": "bothṭapṇā",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "बोथटपणा"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"note": "of a person or action",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bezceremonialność"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "zatuplenije",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "затупление"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "tupovatostʹ",
"sense": "the characteristic of being blunt",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "туповатость"
}
],
"word": "bluntness"
}
Download raw JSONL data for bluntness meaning in English (5.1kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-08-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-08-05 using wiktextract (872fc7b and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.