#byron a dunn

Adjective

[uhb-toos, -tyoos]

1. not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect; not sensitive or observant; dull.

2. not sharp, acute, or pointed; blunt in form.

3. (of a leaf, petal, etc.) rounded at the extremity.

4. indistinctly felt or perceived, as pain or sound.

Origin:
1500–10; <Latin obtūsus dulled (past participle of obtundere), equivalent to ob-ob-+tūd-, variant stem of tundere to beat + -tus past participle suffix, with dt>s

“No trail was so obtuse, no thicket so dense that members of that regiment would not track them to their lair.”
- BYRON A. DUNN, THE COURIER OF THE OZARKS