: a stupid person
Synonyms
- airhead
- birdbrain
- blockhead
- bonehead
- bubblehead
- chowderhead
- chucklehead
- clodpoll
- clodpole
- clot [British]
- cluck
- clunk
- cretin
- cuddy [British dialect]
- cuddie
- deadhead
- dim bulb [slang]
- dimwit
- dip
- dodo
- donkey
- doofus [slang]
- dope
- dork [slang]
- dullard
- dum-dum
- dumbbell
- dumbhead
- dummkopf
- dummy
- dunce
- dunderhead
- fathead
- gander
- golem
- goof
- goon
- half-wit
- hammerhead
- hardhead
- idiot
- ignoramus
- imbecile
- jackass
- know-nothing
- knucklehead
- lamebrain
- loggerhead [chiefly dialect]
- loon
- lump
- lunkhead
- meathead
- mome [archaic]
- moron
- mug [chiefly British]
- mutt
- natural
- nimrod [slang]
- nincompoop
- ninny
- ninnyhammer
- nit [chiefly British]
- nitwit
- noddy
- noodle
- numskull
- numbskull
- oaf
- pinhead
- prat [British]
- ratbag [chiefly Australian]
- saphead
- schlub [slang]
- shlub
- schnook [slang]
- simpleton
- stock
- stupe
- stupid
- thickhead
- turkey
- woodenhead
- yahoo
- yo-yo
Examples of dolt in a Sentence
What a dolt I've been!
he's always jokingly calling his best friend a dolt
Recent Examples on the Web
That tension is central to the third season, in which Harington’s Sir Henry Muck—an old-money dolt with a hilariously accurate name who is a perpetual disappointment to his family—enlists the bank to help launch a green-energy company.
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Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 7 Aug. 2024
Taking its cues from Cyrano de Bergerac, the film stars Martin as Charlie, a regular guy with a big nose who’s in love with Roxanne (Daryl Hannah), an astronomy student who has a thing for a hunky dolt (Rick Rossovich) on Charlie’s firefighting crew.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2024
The fact that leftist dolts oppose military spending in America is ironic in the extreme.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 26 Oct. 2023
Even the most cynical members of the federal government failed to arrange a useful role for such a dolt.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
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Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 7 Aug. 2024
Taking its cues from Cyrano de Bergerac, the film stars Martin as Charlie, a regular guy with a big nose who’s in love with Roxanne (Daryl Hannah), an astronomy student who has a thing for a hunky dolt (Rick Rossovich) on Charlie’s firefighting crew.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2024
The fact that leftist dolts oppose military spending in America is ironic in the extreme.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 26 Oct. 2023
Even the most cynical members of the federal government failed to arrange a useful role for such a dolt.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
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“Dolt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dolt. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
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