thickheaded
/ˌθɪkˈhɛdɪd
/adjective informal
Unintelligent; stupid: what a thickheaded business decision!...
- Members of our race are ignorant, stubborn, and thickheaded.
- I tried getting through to you but you're too thickheaded!
- I've seen the way he looked at you - or are you too thickheaded to notice it?
Derivatives
thickheadedness
- Cushing's running commentary is sympathetic to Castro's revolution, but even he notes that ‘almost every designer has anecdotes of creative work thwarted by political inappropriateness or bureaucratic thickheadedness.’
- He is openly contemptuous of democracy, falling back on arguments about the invincible thickheadedness of many people.
- Ph.Ds, high IQs, and intellectual honors are not antidotes to thickheadedness.
Rhymes
- phase-down
- phase field
- phase-in
- phase inverter
- phase invertor
- phaseless
- phase-lock
- phasemeter
- phase microscope
- phase microscopy
- phase-modulate
- phase-modulated
- phase modulation
- phaseolin
- phaseollin
- phaseometer
- simnel cake
- Simnel, Lambert
- simoleon
- Simon, Carly
- Simon de Montfort
- simoniac
- simoniacal
- Simonides
- simonize