doltish
/ˈdəʊltɪʃ
/adjective
(Of a person) stupid; idiotic: a doltish character...
- Finally there's the problem of arrogance, of the almost doltish clumsiness with which the powerful and confident can pursue their goals.
- You are quite wrong to suggest that only the doltish unlettered can possibly believe in them.
- Her brother-in-law, the dashing, doltish Edward, almost brought the house down.
Synonyms
stupid, idiotic, moronic, imbecilic, foolish, ignorant, simple, simple-minded, dense, brainless, mindless, dull-witted, dull, slow-witted, witless, half-witted, dunce-like, slow, cretinous, empty-headed, vacuous, vapid;
gullible, naive
informal thick, thick as two short planks, dim, dopey, dumb, dozy, birdbrained, pea-brained, pig-ignorant, bovine, slow on the uptake, soft in the head, brain-dead, boneheaded, lamebrained, chuckleheaded, dunderheaded, wooden-headed, fat-headed, muttonheaded
British informal daft, not the full shilling
North American informal dumb-ass
Derivatives
doltishly
- Or I might be sitting doltishly looking out the window.
- He seemed totally unperturbed and even a little pleased that I had doltishly knocked on his door.
- They find it intolerable to think that sentient beings as gross as we are will doltishly persevere.
doltishness
/ noun ...- To strip kids' movies of their innocence and naïveté denotes cynycism and doltishness on the part of the film-makers.
- Snipping away the doltishness, we find this flattering portrait.
- Rushworth, who marries Maria, is a dolt cut from the same cloth as Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice, but his very doltishness makes him fun to read about.