| 单词 | dullard |
| 释义 | dullard (once / 15635 pages) n If something isn’t sharp, it’s dull. This can apply to pencils and people — if you’re sharp, you’re a smarty-pants, but if you’re dull, you’re a dullard. It even sounds kind of dumb, dullard. Dullard is an old-fashioned word for a dumb person. If you have to explain to someone how to sit in a chair, you’re probably talking to a dullard (or a toddler). It's rude to call someone a dullard, but we all feel like dullards sometimes, especially when we make mistakes or can't understand something. WORD FAMILYdullard: dullards USAGE EXAMPLESShareholders deserve a fund firm’s best ideas, not to be stuck with its dullards; if a fund isn’t meritorious, management should kill it off. Seattle Times(Dec 10, 2016) There are the bad choices — the abusive bosses, the angry ideologues and the sheer dullards. Washington Post(Nov 15, 2016) As soon as a dullard hears 'paint' , he thinks of toxins. New York Times(Nov 04, 2016) 1n a person who is not very bright Syn|Hypo|Hyper dolt, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid, stupid person berk a stupid person who is easy to take advantage of blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskulla stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence klutz(Yiddish) a clumsy dolt simple, simpleton a person lacking intelligence or common sense 2n a person who evokes boredom Syn|Hypo|Hyper bore gasbag, windbag a boring person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics nudnick, nudnik(Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest platitudinariana bore who makes excessive use of platitudes stuffed shirta bore who is extremely formal, pompous, and old-fashioned disagreeable person, unpleasant person a person who is not pleasant or agreeable |
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