What does cloddish mean?
Cloddish means Like a clod, a person who is foolish, stupid or parochial..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Like a clod, a person who is foolish, stupid or parochial..
He was a cloddish man, like he'd just fallen off the turnip wagon and hadn't quite woken up yet from his long trip from the country.
Night-seeding, the tractor's floodlights are blood-red & ovarian - nurturing the cloddish soil, & always the farmer working the wheel, hands gnarled & frostbitten & large.
Use cloddish when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cloddish means Like a clod, a person who is foolish, stupid or parochial..
Common synonyms include stupid, doltish.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He was a cloddish man, like he'd just fallen off the turnip wagon and hadn't quite woken up yet from his long trip from the country.
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