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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Of course, some of us have occasionally been that delightfully clueless person. —

Jed Brewer, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2025 Emotionally clueless men are culturally ubiquitous. —

Matthew Schnipper, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2025 Indeed, at a welcoming dinner in Harrison’s mansion, Erzsébet swiftly puts the condescending and clueless guests away with her words, delivered with strength, dignity and sneaky bemusement. —

Carole Horst, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024 Is this what the ‘70s meant by the New Math? All of which is a roundabout way of saying that context matters, and while the people who actually have skin in the ratings game know what the deliveries are worth, much of the commentariat is more or less clueless. —

Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 27 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for clueless