duncenoun [ C ]
uk/dʌns/us/dʌns/disapprovinga person who is slow to learn or stupid, especially at school
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Stupid and silly people
- a right one idiom
- airhead
- asshole
- berk
- birdbrain
- dolt
- doofus
- dork
- duffer
- dullard
- muggins
- muppet
- mutt
- need
- need your head examined idiom
- simpleton
- stupid
- thicko
- tosser
- turkey
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Examples from literature
- Again and again it happens that the dunce of his class goes to the front in the battle of life.
- At school he was a sad dunce.
- Do you want to grow up a dunce, Jack? said his father.
- Dunce that I am not to have guessed it!
- What sort of a dunce do you take me for?