noun
a dull-witted person
the traditional dunce in pointed cap
Synonyms: beetlehead, blockhead, bonehead, boob, booby, ||bufflehead, cabbagehead, chowderhead, chucklehead, chump, clod, clodpate, clodpoll, ||cluck, dimwit, ||dizzard, dodo, ||dodunk, dolt, dolthead, dope, ||doughhead, ||drip, duffer, dullard, dullhead, dumbbell, ||dumb bunny, ||dumb cluck, ||dumbhead, ||dummkopf, dummy, dunderhead, dunderpate, fathead, featherweight, goof, ||goon, hammerhead, idiot, ignoramus, ironhead, knothead, knucklehead, lackwit, lame-brain, lunk, lunkhead, ||moonraker, moron, muddlehead, mug, muggins, mutt, muttonhead, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, oaf, pinhead, poke, prune, pumpkin head, put, ||schnook, simp, simpleton, ||spoon, squarehead, ||stunpoll, ||stupe, stupid, thickhead, thickskull, turnip, wantwit, woodenhead, zombie
Related Word: lightweight; ass, donkey, fool, imbecile, jackass, jerk, nincompoop, ninny, ||schmo, ||schmuck; birdbrain, featherbrain, scatterbrain
Idioms: dumb ox, Simple Simon
Contrasted words: brain, highbrow, intellectual, thinker, wit; pundit, sage, savant, scholar, wise man; prodigy, wizard; genius, mastermind