obtuse
adj.adj. slow to understand something, or choosing not to understand it on purpose. You use this when someone is being annoying by not getting the point.
adj. annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand; lacking sharpness of intellect or perception. Often implies a deliberate refusal to comprehend the obvious.
Stop being obtuse and just answer the question.
The manager was being intentionally obtuse during the meeting to avoid discussing the budget cuts.
While the instructions were admittedly dense, his colleagues suspected he was being deliberately obtuse to delay the project's implementation.
From Middle English obtuse, from Latin obtūsus (“blunt, dull; obtuse”), past participle of obtundere, from obtundō (“to batter, beat, strike; to blunt, dull”), from ob- (“against”) (see ob-) + tundō (“to beat, strike; to bruise, crush, pound”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European (s)tewd-, from (s)tew- (“to hit; to push”)). More at obtund.
Often used predicatively after linking verbs like 'be', 'seem', or 'act'.
he was being abstrusehe was being obtuseLearners confuse 'obtuse' (slow to understand) with 'abstruse' (difficult to understand).