Dud

Quick meaning: Dud is a noun meaning (informal) A failure of any kind.

Meaning

(informal) A failure of any kind.

More Meanings

1. Useless; failing; ineffective.
2. (informal) A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile.
3. (obsolete, informal) Clothes, now always used in plural form duds.

Example Sentences

Alzheimer's Drug Aduhelm Went From Being Hailed A 'Game Changer' To A Dud

[…] they're flying in the duddest of dud weather to hold the Germans back.

At the end of the day, the vast majority of primary schools are vibrant, friendly places and you may struggle to choose one because they all seem so great. Primary schools tend to have the feelgood factor. If you just aren't feeling it, this one's probably a dud.

The only amusing highlight was Gudgeon having managed to exploit U.S. codebreaking efforts to ambush and destroy the submarine I-173, albeit not for the lack of the Mark 14's trying to sabotage the effort, as the torpedo that had hit the sub had refused to detonate; it seemed, however, that the car-crash levels of kinetic energy involved in the dud simply ramming the sub had nonetheless done enough to fatally damage it.

Word Forms

• duds
• duddest

Synonyms for dud

Depending on context, synonyms include blank, flop, washout, misfire, unloaded, bomb.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include misfire, flop, unloaded, washout, bomb, turkey.

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