bubbleheaded

adjective

Definition of bubbleheadednext
1
as in stupid
not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily the professor was forced to eat his words when the former student he once described as bubbleheaded became a leading authority in the field

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2
as in foolish
showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment was immediately caught trying to perpetrate a bubbleheaded scheme to defraud investors that no one fell for

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bubbleheaded
  1. stupid
  2. foolish
  3. dumb
  4. silly
  5. slow
  6. absurd
  7. thick
  8. mad
Adjective
  • The big choices characters do make are all almost incomprehensibly stupid.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Nobody directing people and stupid mazes with limited entrances.
    Pete Sampson, The Athletic, 23 Nov. 2024
Definition of stupid
Adjective
  • The San Francisco 49ers would be foolish to trade Nick Bosa, but that's exactly what a California politician wants.
    Ryan Morik, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The authors concluded that any attempt to create a synthetic substance to replace the mud — something Major League Baseball has explored — would be foolish.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of foolish
Adjective
  • Ratajkowski has been fighting the stereotype of the dumb model from the beginning of her career.
    Daniel Jackson, Allure, 18 July 2017
  • Ninety nine percent of all NFL players are explicitly not dumb.
    Andy Benoit, The MMQB, 10 July 2017
Definition of dumb
Adjective
  • In this show, everyone has their distinct personalities — Reneé as Leighton is sassy and dry and Pauline as Kimberly is sweet and a little silly, for example.
    Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Here was this band of rebellious and silly kids in bright clothes rapping their asses off.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of silly
Adjective
  • Now starts a transitional phase, which is simultaneously slow and fast.
    Camila Domonoske, NPR, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The shutter speed of the 6X zoom is relatively slow in low light conditions, resulting in blurry shots more often than with, say, the Vivo X200 Pro.
    Ben Sin, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of slow
Adjective
  • After lightly chiding these gents for two movies, director Michael Winterbottom finally takes the knives out and begins to punish them, a decision that results in two late scenes that border on sociopathic and culminates in an unimaginably absurd ending that refuses to let Coogan off the hook.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 19 Nov. 2024
  • To envision European unity without the United States—as the authors attempt to do—is therefore absurd. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS O’Brien and Stringer try to address, in a practical way, the hard security questions Europe would face if abandoned by Washington.
    Sumantra Maitra, Foreign Affairs, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of absurd
Adjective
  • Therefore, don’t be surprised to see bucks bedding right on the edge of thick cover within some of the areas noted above.
    Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 22 Nov. 2024
  • In almost any Auerbach oil painting, early or late, rawness is thick on the ground.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of thick
Adjective
  • The sight of a covey of desert quail fills me with a mad, superhuman strength.
    Jack O’Connor, Outdoor Life, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Then, like clockwork, a bunch of Democrats got mad.
    Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of mad
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