dolt

• POS: Noun

OXFORD DICTIONARY

dolt, n. a stupid person.

Derivative

doltish adj. doltishly adv. doltishness n.

Etymology

app. related to dol, dold, obs. var. of DULL

THESAURUS

dolt

Boeotian, ass, birdbrain, block, blockhead, blunderer, blunderhead, bonehead, boob, booby, boor, botcher, bumbler, bungler, chucklehead, chump, clod, clodhopper, clodknocker, clot, clown, dimwit, ding-a-ling, dingbat, dolthead, donkey, dope, dullard, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, dunderpate, fathead, flake, fool, fumbler, gawk, goon, gowk, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, jerk, jobbernowl, klutz, lackwit, lamebrain, lightweight, looby, loon, lout, lubber, lunkhead, moron, muggins, niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, noddy, numskull, oaf, ox, pinhead, put, simpleton, slouch, slubberer, stupid, thickwit, twit, witling, yokel

ROGET THESAURUS

dolt

Fool

N fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass, ninny, ninnyhammer, chowderhead, chucklehead, dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl, goose, goosecap, imbecile, gaby, radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany, trifler, babbler, pretty fellow, natural, niais, child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop, oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps, tony, bull head, dunderhead, addlehead, blockhead, dullhead, loggerhead, jolthead, jolterhead, beetlehead, beetlebrain, grosshead, muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead, numbskull, thickskull, lackbrain, shallowbrain, dimwit, halfwit, lackwit, dunderpate, lunkhead sawney, gowk, clod, clod-hopper, clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate, bull calf, gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube, men of Boeotia, wise men of Gotham, un sot a triple etage, sot, jobbernowl, changeling, mooncalf, gobemouche, dotard, driveler, old fogey, old woman, crock, crone, grandmother, cotquean, henhussy, incompetent (insanity), greenhorn, dunce, lubber, madman, one who will not set the Thames on fire, one who did not invent gunpowder, qui n'a pas invente' la poudre, no conjuror, fortuna favet fatuis, les fous font les festinas et les sages les mangen, nomina stultorum parietibus harrent, stultorum plena sunt omnia.