Synonyms and Antonyms of featherhead
- discovered that the sales clerk was not a featherhead, but had made an honest mistake
airhead, birdbrain, blockhead, dodo, dolt, donkey, dope, dork [slang], dumbbell, dummy, dunce, fathead, gander, goon, half-wit, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, know-nothing, knucklehead, moron, numskull (or numbskull), pinhead, schlub (also shlub) [slang], schlump [slang], schnook [slang], stock
butt, dupe, laughingstock, mockery, monkey
chump, loser, schlemiel (also shlemiel)
character, codger, crackbrain, crackpot, crank, kook, oddball, screwball, weirdo
- too important a diplomatic post to assign to some congenial featherhead