dopey
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Synonyms & Antonyms for dopey
Synonyms
airheaded, birdbrained, bonehead, boneheaded, brain-dead, brainless, bubbleheaded, chuckleheaded, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dorky [slang], dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, gormless [chiefly British], half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), lunkheaded, mindless, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, senseless, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, stupid, thick, thick-witted, thickheaded, unintelligent, unsmart, vacuous, weak-minded, witless
Antonyms
apt, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, fast, hyperintelligent, intelligent, keen, nimble, quick, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, supersmart, ultrasmart
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Some people do some dopey things, to be sure, and would continue to over the entire seven-season run of the show. — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, "Watching 'The West Wing' 20 years later can be depressing and hopeful," 19 July 2019 Christian and his friends are deliberately dopey, with the air of casual colonists â getting wasted, urinating on sacred trees and photographing precious artifacts against direct orders. — Barbara Vandenburgh, azcentral, "Review: Ari Aster's crazy new horror flick 'Midsommar' is ready to mess with your mind," 1 July 2019 The series has also not been shy about tackling the conflict between religiously conservative ideology and LGBTQ+ acceptance â embodied by Rob McElhenneyâs dopey, cognitively dissonant Mac. — Daniel Menegaz, EW.com, "Why It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and star Rob McElhenney deserve Emmys," 24 June 2019 When the pink-and-white machine chirps out motivational advice, the show is clearly playing with the way that this millennium in pop has been packed with generic self-help rhetoric, which can indeed come off as creepy or dopey. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, "Black Mirrorâs Miley Cyrus Episode Isnât That Far-Fetched," 6 June 2019 Yesterday saw a presidential tweetstorm flinging dopey invective at the usual targets âLisa Page, Hillary, et al, from a guy who appears increasingly cornered. — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, "The Week in Washington: âItâs All Coming Home to Roostâ," 16 Dec. 2018 Where the smaller Pixel 2 had big, dopey bezels, the Pixel 3 has smaller ones. — Dieter Bohn, The Verge, "Google Pixel 3 and 3 XL review: the best camera gets a better phone," 15 Oct. 2018 Another snatched an unsigned letter from his desk to abort some presumptively dopey action. — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, "Weâre Surviving Trump Just Fine," 7 Sep. 2018 There is also Jake Paul, a dopey blond vlogger and provocateur who recently secured a feature verse from Gucci Mane. — Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, "Cardi Bâs âInvasion of Privacyâ Is as Studious as It Is Bombastic," 27 Sep. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'dopey.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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