Definition of dullard in English:

dullard

noun ˈdʌlədˈdələrd

A slow or stupid person.
he was caricatured as a dupe and a dullard
as modifier his dullard cousin
Example sentencesExamples
- Our schools are, it would seem, turning out generation after generation of dullards, unable to read or do simple arithmetic.
- But at least he was passionate, colourful, and controversial - and what a contrast that is with the grey suited dullards running the game today?
- Men come off poorly in the piece, mostly as absent confused dullards hanging around the margins of their family's lives, irritating their spouses by their mulish refusal to read minds and anticipate what needs to be done.
- We're developing a visual presentation that isn't simply the standard four faceless dullards banging through their barely discernible repertoire.
- Inexpensive areas to live are not, as some sophisticates on the coast suppose, attractive only to dullards and menial workers.
- The lefty dullards are the only ones getting decent airtime.
- The album is very consistent and there are no dullards on here.
- Don't you hate how Taurans get type-cast as plodding, stubborn, unimaginative dullards?
- The well-behaved dullards of this world are content to play golf, and while it is true that I have occasionally played their game, I have never finished a round without cheating and moving my ball onto a dust of grass with my toe.
- He is innocent by his ignorance, a simple dullard who can return to his yacht or gated manse comforted by the knowledge that he is not a crook.
- Imagine being in a bed next to those two dullards.
- History is littered with despots and psychopaths, murderous dullards, evil geniuses, deadly incompetents, calamitous brutes of all descriptions.
- All one can say that is positive about this awful, stupid, imbecile dullard of a PM is that one day, soon he'll be gone and thank god for that.
- The colon is the sidearm of the canny production company, though, meaning that a programme can have an obscure name and then something which explains it to the dullards in the audience.
- Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe.
- As everything else, in the book it's clever and subtle (it took several readings before it clicked), but in the film it's made explicitly clear for the dullards.
- Better to assign a team of lively-but-conflicted writers to review a slew of rotten books than a gang of dullards to the most deserving releases of the season.
- The liberal majority of the country were painted as racist dullards who would not take part in profitable foreign adventures for fear of being killed.
- It doesn't make men or women rude, sleazy, crooked, or unimaginative, but it provides opportunity for such dullards and for the genuinely contributory alike.
- It's designed to give these dullards something to talk about at Julian and Nigel's next dinner party, so they can pretend they're hip and happening and up with all the high-priced culture and social trends this great city has to offer.
Synonyms
idiot, fool, stupid person, simpleton, ignoramus, oaf, dunce, dolt, moron, cretin, imbecile
informal duffer, nincompoop, booby, dope, chump, nitwit, dimwit, airhead, birdbrain, lamebrain, pea-brain, numbskull, thickhead, fathead, blockhead, bonehead, dunderhead, meathead, muttonhead, wooden-head, dipstick, dumb-bell, noodle, dumbo, dum-dum, ass, donkey, jerk
British informal wally, berk, divvy, nit, mug, pillock, prat, wazzock, silly billy
North American informal doofus, goof, goofball, putz, bozo, boob, lamer, lummox, dummy, turkey
Australian/New Zealand informal galah, dingbat, drongo
British vulgar slang knobhead
North American vulgar slang asshat

Origin

Middle English: from Middle Dutch dullaert, from dul 'dull'.

Rhymes

bicoloured (US bicolored), multicoloured (US multicolored), particoloured (US particolored), self-coloured (US self-colored), uncoloured (US uncolored), varicoloured (US varicolored), versicoloured (US versicolored)

Definition of dullard in US English:

dullard

nounˈdələrdˈdələrd

A slow or stupid person.
he was caricatured as a dupe and a dullard
as modifier his dullard cousin
Example sentencesExamples
- Better to assign a team of lively-but-conflicted writers to review a slew of rotten books than a gang of dullards to the most deserving releases of the season.
- The album is very consistent and there are no dullards on here.
- The liberal majority of the country were painted as racist dullards who would not take part in profitable foreign adventures for fear of being killed.
- Don't you hate how Taurans get type-cast as plodding, stubborn, unimaginative dullards?
- Men come off poorly in the piece, mostly as absent confused dullards hanging around the margins of their family's lives, irritating their spouses by their mulish refusal to read minds and anticipate what needs to be done.
- It's designed to give these dullards something to talk about at Julian and Nigel's next dinner party, so they can pretend they're hip and happening and up with all the high-priced culture and social trends this great city has to offer.
- It doesn't make men or women rude, sleazy, crooked, or unimaginative, but it provides opportunity for such dullards and for the genuinely contributory alike.
- Our schools are, it would seem, turning out generation after generation of dullards, unable to read or do simple arithmetic.
- All one can say that is positive about this awful, stupid, imbecile dullard of a PM is that one day, soon he'll be gone and thank god for that.
- As everything else, in the book it's clever and subtle (it took several readings before it clicked), but in the film it's made explicitly clear for the dullards.
- Inexpensive areas to live are not, as some sophisticates on the coast suppose, attractive only to dullards and menial workers.
- The well-behaved dullards of this world are content to play golf, and while it is true that I have occasionally played their game, I have never finished a round without cheating and moving my ball onto a dust of grass with my toe.
- History is littered with despots and psychopaths, murderous dullards, evil geniuses, deadly incompetents, calamitous brutes of all descriptions.
- We're developing a visual presentation that isn't simply the standard four faceless dullards banging through their barely discernible repertoire.
- But at least he was passionate, colourful, and controversial - and what a contrast that is with the grey suited dullards running the game today?
- Imagine being in a bed next to those two dullards.
- Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe.
- The colon is the sidearm of the canny production company, though, meaning that a programme can have an obscure name and then something which explains it to the dullards in the audience.
- The lefty dullards are the only ones getting decent airtime.
- He is innocent by his ignorance, a simple dullard who can return to his yacht or gated manse comforted by the knowledge that he is not a crook.
Synonyms
idiot, fool, stupid person, simpleton, ignoramus, oaf, dunce, dolt, moron, cretin, imbecile

Origin

Middle English: from Middle Dutch dullaert, from dul ‘dull’.

单词	dullard
释义	Definition of dullard in English: dullard noun ˈdʌlədˈdələrd A slow or stupid person. he was caricatured as a dupe and a dullard as modifier his dullard cousin Example sentencesExamples Our schools are, it would seem, turning out generation after generation of dullards, unable to read or do simple arithmetic. But at least he was passionate, colourful, and controversial - and what a contrast that is with the grey suited dullards running the game today? Men come off poorly in the piece, mostly as absent confused dullards hanging around the margins of their family's lives, irritating their spouses by their mulish refusal to read minds and anticipate what needs to be done. We're developing a visual presentation that isn't simply the standard four faceless dullards banging through their barely discernible repertoire. Inexpensive areas to live are not, as some sophisticates on the coast suppose, attractive only to dullards and menial workers. The lefty dullards are the only ones getting decent airtime. The album is very consistent and there are no dullards on here. Don't you hate how Taurans get type-cast as plodding, stubborn, unimaginative dullards? The well-behaved dullards of this world are content to play golf, and while it is true that I have occasionally played their game, I have never finished a round without cheating and moving my ball onto a dust of grass with my toe. He is innocent by his ignorance, a simple dullard who can return to his yacht or gated manse comforted by the knowledge that he is not a crook. Imagine being in a bed next to those two dullards. History is littered with despots and psychopaths, murderous dullards, evil geniuses, deadly incompetents, calamitous brutes of all descriptions. All one can say that is positive about this awful, stupid, imbecile dullard of a PM is that one day, soon he'll be gone and thank god for that. The colon is the sidearm of the canny production company, though, meaning that a programme can have an obscure name and then something which explains it to the dullards in the audience. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. As everything else, in the book it's clever and subtle (it took several readings before it clicked), but in the film it's made explicitly clear for the dullards. Better to assign a team of lively-but-conflicted writers to review a slew of rotten books than a gang of dullards to the most deserving releases of the season. The liberal majority of the country were painted as racist dullards who would not take part in profitable foreign adventures for fear of being killed. It doesn't make men or women rude, sleazy, crooked, or unimaginative, but it provides opportunity for such dullards and for the genuinely contributory alike. It's designed to give these dullards something to talk about at Julian and Nigel's next dinner party, so they can pretend they're hip and happening and up with all the high-priced culture and social trends this great city has to offer. Synonyms idiot, fool, stupid person, simpleton, ignoramus, oaf, dunce, dolt, moron, cretin, imbecile informal duffer, nincompoop, booby, dope, chump, nitwit, dimwit, airhead, birdbrain, lamebrain, pea-brain, numbskull, thickhead, fathead, blockhead, bonehead, dunderhead, meathead, muttonhead, wooden-head, dipstick, dumb-bell, noodle, dumbo, dum-dum, ass, donkey, jerk British informal wally, berk, divvy, nit, mug, pillock, prat, wazzock, silly billy North American informal doofus, goof, goofball, putz, bozo, boob, lamer, lummox, dummy, turkey Australian/New Zealand informal galah, dingbat, drongo British vulgar slang knobhead North American vulgar slang asshat Origin Middle English: from Middle Dutch dullaert, from dul 'dull'. Rhymes bicoloured (US bicolored), multicoloured (US multicolored), particoloured (US particolored), self-coloured (US self-colored), uncoloured (US uncolored), varicoloured (US varicolored), versicoloured (US versicolored) Definition of dullard in US English: dullard nounˈdələrdˈdələrd A slow or stupid person. he was caricatured as a dupe and a dullard as modifier his dullard cousin Example sentencesExamples Better to assign a team of lively-but-conflicted writers to review a slew of rotten books than a gang of dullards to the most deserving releases of the season. The album is very consistent and there are no dullards on here. The liberal majority of the country were painted as racist dullards who would not take part in profitable foreign adventures for fear of being killed. Don't you hate how Taurans get type-cast as plodding, stubborn, unimaginative dullards? Men come off poorly in the piece, mostly as absent confused dullards hanging around the margins of their family's lives, irritating their spouses by their mulish refusal to read minds and anticipate what needs to be done. It's designed to give these dullards something to talk about at Julian and Nigel's next dinner party, so they can pretend they're hip and happening and up with all the high-priced culture and social trends this great city has to offer. It doesn't make men or women rude, sleazy, crooked, or unimaginative, but it provides opportunity for such dullards and for the genuinely contributory alike. Our schools are, it would seem, turning out generation after generation of dullards, unable to read or do simple arithmetic. All one can say that is positive about this awful, stupid, imbecile dullard of a PM is that one day, soon he'll be gone and thank god for that. As everything else, in the book it's clever and subtle (it took several readings before it clicked), but in the film it's made explicitly clear for the dullards. Inexpensive areas to live are not, as some sophisticates on the coast suppose, attractive only to dullards and menial workers. The well-behaved dullards of this world are content to play golf, and while it is true that I have occasionally played their game, I have never finished a round without cheating and moving my ball onto a dust of grass with my toe. History is littered with despots and psychopaths, murderous dullards, evil geniuses, deadly incompetents, calamitous brutes of all descriptions. We're developing a visual presentation that isn't simply the standard four faceless dullards banging through their barely discernible repertoire. But at least he was passionate, colourful, and controversial - and what a contrast that is with the grey suited dullards running the game today? Imagine being in a bed next to those two dullards. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. The colon is the sidearm of the canny production company, though, meaning that a programme can have an obscure name and then something which explains it to the dullards in the audience. The lefty dullards are the only ones getting decent airtime. He is innocent by his ignorance, a simple dullard who can return to his yacht or gated manse comforted by the knowledge that he is not a crook. Synonyms idiot, fool, stupid person, simpleton, ignoramus, oaf, dunce, dolt, moron, cretin, imbecile Origin Middle English: from Middle Dutch dullaert, from dul ‘dull’.
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