adjective [ only before noun ]
1.
( of a shot ) fired with the gun touching or very close to the person or thing it is aimed at :
The officer was shot dead at point-blank range .
2.
( of sth that is said ) very definite and direct and not very polite
SYN blunt :
a point-blank refusal
► ˌpoint-ˈblank adverb :
She fired point-blank at his chest.
He refused point-blank to be photographed.
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WORD ORIGIN
late 16th cent.: probably from point + blank in the contemporaneous sense white spot in the centre of a target .