Dunderheaded

Quick meaning: Dunderheaded is an adjective meaning Stupid, foolish.

Meaning

Stupid, foolish.

Example Sentences

He knew all about it, dammit! It was no pleasure for him to have the thing shoved down his neck by every dunderheaded pumpkin-faced noodle in the universe!

He went doggedly across the fields with his terrier, and looked at everything with a jaundiced eye. . . . [W]as he a dunderheaded baby, not man enough to be like the other young fellows who drank a good deal and wenched a little without any question, and were satisfied?

The best way to see Hell's Highway, which opens today in Manhattan, might be on a double bill with 2 Fast 2 Furious. Yes, one is a scholarly documentary and the other a dunderheaded action picture, but both, in their different ways, offer testimony to the love affair between the movie camera and the automobile

Much nearer sixty years of age than fifty, with a flowing outline of stomach, and horizontal creases in his waistcoat; reputed to be rich; voting at elections in the strictly respectable interest; morally satisfied that nothing but he himself has grown since he was a baby; how can dunder-headed Mr. Sapsea be otherwise than a credit to Cloisterham, and society?

Word Forms

• dunder-headed

Synonyms for dunderheaded

Depending on context, synonyms include addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained, beef-witted, beefheaded.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include blockhead, loggerhead, numskull, knucklehead, dunce, lunkhead.

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