dolt
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Synonyms
airhead, birdbrain, blockhead, bonehead, bubblehead, chowderhead, chucklehead, clodpoll (or clodpole), clot [British], cluck, clunk, cretin, cuddy (or cuddie) [British dialect], deadhead, dim bulb [slang], dimwit, dip, dodo, donkey, doofus [slang], dope, dork [slang], dullard, dum-dum, dumbbell, dumbhead, dummkopf, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, fathead, gander, golem, goof, goon, half-wit, hammerhead, hardhead, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, jackass, know-nothing, knucklehead, lamebrain, loggerhead [chiefly dialect], loon, lump, lunkhead, meathead, mome [archaic], moron, mug [chiefly British], mutt, natural, nimrod [slang], nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nit [chiefly British], nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull (or numbskull), oaf, pinhead, prat [British], ratbag [chiefly Australian], saphead, schlub (also shlub) [slang], schnook [slang], simpleton, stock, stupe, stupid, thickhead, turkey, woodenhead, yahoo, yo-yo
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My three-year-old understands on-demand, streaming, but Alabamaās Secretary of State is still flipping channels like a dolt? — al.com, "Leave it to Cleaver: Merrillās homophobic TV nostalgia is a political rerun we canāt stop watching," 24 July 2019 After all, those sipping the tea were wealthy and thus successful, while the dolts reading think tank reports were just bureaucrats, one Administration official groused. — Philip Elliott, Time, "Inside Donald Trump's Twitter-Fueled Weekend Meltdown," 20 Feb. 2018 My three-year-old understands on-demand, streaming, but Alabamaās Secretary of State is still flipping channels like a dolt? — al.com, "Leave it to Cleaver: Merrillās homophobic TV nostalgia is a political rerun we canāt stop watching," 24 July 2019 Be prepared for an even more authoritarian decent when the curtain is pulled back on this totally unwizardly dolt and his klan of dangerous fools. — Tyler Mccarthy, Fox News, "Peter Fonda sorry for Barron Trump tweet but his tweets often go too far," 22 June 2018 Burned into our collective memory as the apparel of choice for gangsters like Tony Montana, playboys like Hugh Hefner, and the greatest dolt in fashion history, Derek Zoolander, silky menswear has been parodied into a pulp. — Samuel Hine, GQ, "Silk Is This Season's Strongest Look," 1 May 2018 After all, those sipping the tea were wealthy and thus successful, while the dolts reading think tank reports were just bureaucrats, one Administration official groused. — Philip Elliott, Time, "Inside Donald Trump's Twitter-Fueled Weekend Meltdown," 20 Feb. 2018 Never forget that conventional wisdom in 1981 regarded Reagan as a Hollywood dolt. — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, "The Godfather of Tax Reform," 20 Dec. 2017 But in the wake of Charlottesville, only a dolt would believe that explanation. — Fred Kaplan, Slate Magazine, "James Mattis tells the troops that their president is failing them.," 28 Aug. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'dolt.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
