clueless

adjective

clue·less ˈklü-ləs

Synonyms of clueless next

: having or providing no clue

a clueless case for the police to solve

: completely or hopelessly bewildered, unaware, ignorant, or foolish

clueless about what they want

cluelessly adverb

I played dumb. I have arrived at a point in my life where I can perform this stunt with aplomb. "What do you mean?" I asked, as cluelessly as I knew how. —

Steve Friedman

cluelessness noun

Mowrey is also trying to make a deer hunter of Bentley, whose cluelessness as an outdoors-man is a rich source of amusement to his country-boy crony. —

Austin Murphy

Examples of clueless in a Sentence

When it comes to computers, I'm clueless. They were clueless about what to do.

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Many have compared Crews’ clueless President Camacho to President Donald Trump. —

Glenn Garner, Deadline, 13 Dec. 2024 Her television career has continued in recent years, starring in The Other Two (2019–2023) and appearing in season 4 of Only Murders in the Building (2024) as a clueless Hollywood executive. Shannon and her husband Fritz Chestnut wed in 2004. —

EW.com, 7 Dec. 2024 Adams is the ideal vessel for that discovery: The character is more clueless about reality than her elders, and yet her idealism is rooted in a humanism that Streep’s reactionary matron lacks. —

Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024 The clueless top brass at Xerox’s headquarters sat by while Apple, and eventually everyone else, copied its graphical user interface. —

Steven Levy, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for clueless