émoussé
French, adjective
émoussé is spelled É-M-O-U-S-S-É (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 64,346th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Émoussé is a French adjective meaning “dull” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of émousser (“to dull, to blunt”). With an accent, émousse is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui a perdu son tranchant ; dont le fil ne coupe plus ; dont la pointe ne pique plus”.
What does émoussé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
dull
verb
- 1
past participle of émousser (“to dull, to blunt”)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui a perdu son tranchant ; dont le fil ne coupe plus ; dont la pointe ne pique plus. 2. Qui a perdu sa vivacité, son alacrité, son mordant. 3. Se dit d’une lame, d’un fer de lance, d’une pique… qui n’a pas de pointe.
noun: 1. Vieil arbre creux.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of émoussé
- émoussée feminine
- émoussés masculine plural
- émoussées feminine plural
- émousses plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to émoussé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is émoussé in French?
émoussé appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).