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Definition of nincompoop in English: nincompoopnoun ˈnɪŋkəmpuːpˈnɪŋkəmˌpup A foolish or stupid person. Example sentencesExamples - Nothing will pierce the thick skins of the nincompoops that lord over us.
- When the audience looked at him, it saw a sniveling nincompoop.
- We'd feel like nincompoops without our jackets and helmets.
- I'm not really surrounded by nincompoops, I know that.
- And, as a reader recently suggested, it would allow movie watchers to gang up on the nincompoops who insist on chatting away on their cell phones during the show - if their cell phones are equipped with recorders.
- Reading such works, I am inclined to throw the egotistical nincompoops out the window - as this is frequently impossible, I content myself with throwing the relevant books across the room.
- The responsibility for putting a nincompoop in charge of federal disaster relief doesn't rest with the nincompoop.
- Now wizened, and hopefully wiser too, he still is not able to leave an impression on anybody except two real nincompoops in the film.
- As a result, the Ministry of Works runs the very real risk of being labelled cowardly and managerial nincompoops for failing to see and act on glaring truths for fear of making an error.
- It's great for you, too, because if your one guy is an ill-prepared nincompoop, then your whole country doesn't go down with him,’ she says.
- The small hotel bar is one of the most uncomfortable places I have ever visited, and filled with the sort of shrill nincompoops that I would normally go to great lengths to avoid.
- At this point I'm sure some of you are thinking I'm some sort of sanctimonious horse's butt, preaching to all the nincompoops.
- Then of course there are curmudgeons like me who think it's a waste of time to invent something that helps nincompoops organize their recipes, play solitaire, or set a trap for a wireless mouse.
- Costume rental shops report brisk business in trying to keep up with the insatiable demand of name-dropping nincompoops looking for funky fashions and gaudy gowns to wear for the event.
- For some people, this can be horrible, and certainly if you're not a nincompoop you'll be aware of this and try and manage your public presentation of personality accordingly.
- But it is fun to think of the worst American newsrooms as comprising a bunch of jerks working for an elite corps of nincompoops.
- The best it can do is take people's minds off it by producing wow-provoking new initiatives and making National look like a bunch of nincompoops.
- I can wish that the Pope would do something almost no Pope has ever done: fire a bunch of bishops for being nincompoops.
- America felt more comfortable with a nincompoop, or at least a lot of those who voted did.
- Or maybe you think I'm a crass, stupid, nincompoop?
Synonyms idiot, fool, ass, halfwit, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton, clod
Origin Late 17th century: perhaps from the given name Nicholas or from Nicodemus (by association with the Pharisee of this name, and his naive questioning of Christ; compare with French nicodème 'simpleton'). The word nincompoop perhaps came from Nicodemus, the name of a Jewish Pharisee in the New Testament who became something of a byword for slow-wittedness. Nicodemus secretly visited Jesus one night to hear about his teachings. Jesus explained, ‘Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God’, which puzzled the Pharisee, who took Jesus literally and said ‘How can a man be born when he is old?’. The -poop part of the word may have come from the old verb poop, which meant ‘to deceive or cheat’. In a similar vein ninny (late 16th century) may be a pet form of the name Innocent.
Definition of nincompoop in US English: nincompoopnounˈnɪŋkəmˌpupˈniNGkəmˌpo͞op A foolish or stupid person. Example sentencesExamples - Or maybe you think I'm a crass, stupid, nincompoop?
- And, as a reader recently suggested, it would allow movie watchers to gang up on the nincompoops who insist on chatting away on their cell phones during the show - if their cell phones are equipped with recorders.
- I'm not really surrounded by nincompoops, I know that.
- America felt more comfortable with a nincompoop, or at least a lot of those who voted did.
- Reading such works, I am inclined to throw the egotistical nincompoops out the window - as this is frequently impossible, I content myself with throwing the relevant books across the room.
- As a result, the Ministry of Works runs the very real risk of being labelled cowardly and managerial nincompoops for failing to see and act on glaring truths for fear of making an error.
- Then of course there are curmudgeons like me who think it's a waste of time to invent something that helps nincompoops organize their recipes, play solitaire, or set a trap for a wireless mouse.
- The small hotel bar is one of the most uncomfortable places I have ever visited, and filled with the sort of shrill nincompoops that I would normally go to great lengths to avoid.
- The best it can do is take people's minds off it by producing wow-provoking new initiatives and making National look like a bunch of nincompoops.
- But it is fun to think of the worst American newsrooms as comprising a bunch of jerks working for an elite corps of nincompoops.
- We'd feel like nincompoops without our jackets and helmets.
- When the audience looked at him, it saw a sniveling nincompoop.
- I can wish that the Pope would do something almost no Pope has ever done: fire a bunch of bishops for being nincompoops.
- Costume rental shops report brisk business in trying to keep up with the insatiable demand of name-dropping nincompoops looking for funky fashions and gaudy gowns to wear for the event.
- Nothing will pierce the thick skins of the nincompoops that lord over us.
- The responsibility for putting a nincompoop in charge of federal disaster relief doesn't rest with the nincompoop.
- At this point I'm sure some of you are thinking I'm some sort of sanctimonious horse's butt, preaching to all the nincompoops.
- It's great for you, too, because if your one guy is an ill-prepared nincompoop, then your whole country doesn't go down with him,’ she says.
- Now wizened, and hopefully wiser too, he still is not able to leave an impression on anybody except two real nincompoops in the film.
- For some people, this can be horrible, and certainly if you're not a nincompoop you'll be aware of this and try and manage your public presentation of personality accordingly.
Synonyms idiot, fool, ass, halfwit, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton, clod
Origin Late 17th century: perhaps from the given name Nicholas or from Nicodemus (by association with the Pharisee of this name, and his naive questioning of Christ; compare with French nicodème ‘simpleton’). |