dullard
/ˈdʌləd
/noun
A slow or stupid person: he was caricatured as a dupe and a dullard [as modifier]: his dullard cousin...
- He is innocent by his ignorance, a simple dullard who can return to his yacht or gated manse comforted by the knowledge that he is not a crook.
- All one can say that is positive about this awful, stupid, imbecile dullard of a PM is that one day, soon he'll be gone and thank god for that.
- History is littered with despots and psychopaths, murderous dullards, evil geniuses, deadly incompetents, calamitous brutes of all descriptions.
Synonyms
idiot, fool, stupid person, simpleton, ignoramus, oaf, dunce, dolt, moron, cretin, imbecile
informal duffer, nincompoop, booby, dope, chump, nitwit, dimwit, airhead, birdbrain, lamebrain, pea-brain, numbskull, thickhead, fathead, blockhead, bonehead, dunderhead, meathead, muttonhead, wooden-head, dipstick, dumb-bell, noodle, dumbo, dum-dum, ass, donkey, jerk
British informal wally, berk, divvy, nit, mug, pillock, prat, wazzock, silly billy
North American informal doofus, goof, goofball, putz, bozo, boob, lamer, lummox, dummy, turkey
Australian/New Zealand informal galah, dingbat, drongo
British vulgar slang knobhead
North American vulgar slang asshat
Origin
Middle English: from Middle Dutch dullaert, from dul 'dull'.
Rhymes
- articulateness
- articulate-speaking
- articulation
- articulative
- articulator
- articulatorily
- articulatory
- articulous
- artifact
- artifactually
- artifex
- artifice
- artificer
- artificery
- artificial
- artificial aid
- artificial atom
- artificial blood
- artificial chromosome
- artificial climbing
- artificial day
- artificial ear
- artificial evolution
- artificial eye
- artificial gene