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Definition: Dullard |
DullardNoun1. A person who is not very bright: "The economy, stupid!". 2. A person who evokes boredom. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dullard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Note: Dullard \Dull"ard\, noun. [Dull -ard.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards came in with Adam, and being both numerous and sturdy have overrun the habitable world. The secret of their power is their insensibility to blows; tickle them with a bludgeon and they laugh with a platitude. The Dullards came originally from Boeotia, whence they were driven by stress of starvation, their dullness having blighted the crops. For some centuries they infested Philistia, and many of them are called Philistines to this day. In the turbulent times of the Crusades they withdrew thence and gradually overspread all Europe, occupying most of the high places in politics, art, literature, science and theology. Since a detachment of Dullards came over with the Pilgrims in the Mayflower and made a favorable report of the country, their increase by birth, immigration, and conversion has been rapid and steady. According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians. The intellectual centre of the race is somewhere about Peoria, Illinois, but the New England Dullard is the most shockingly moral. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: DullardSynonyms: bore (n), dolt (n), poor fish (n), pudden-head (n), pudding head (n), stupid (n), stupid person (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fool | Oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps, tony. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dullard |
| English words defined with "dullard": Thickskin, Thickskull. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dullard": Michon ♦ Platitude. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. The wisdom of a million fools in the diction of a dullard. A fossil sentiment in artificial rock. A moral without the fable. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A demi-tasse of milk-and-mortality. The Pope's-nose of a featherless peacock. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. The cackle surviving the egg. A desiccated epigram. |
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| "Dullard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dullard" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dullard times | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dullard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | مغفل (dense, dolt, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, dupe, fat-witted, fool, foolish, licentious, moronic, mutton-headed, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, numskull, pointless, rubbishy, silly, simple, simple minded, simpleton, soft-headed, softy, stupid, thick-headed, weak-minded), غبي (asinine, dense, dick, dim witted, drip, dull, empty headed, fathead, jerk, lacking, lunatic, moronic, opaque, patsy, plonker, sap, slow witted, soppy, stupid, thick, thick-headed, thickish, thick-witted, tomfool, twerp, uncivil, unintelligent, wooden), المغفل (boob, booby, daw, dunce, dunderhead, dupe, featherbrain, gaby, gander, gawk, idiot, jackass, lout, lunkhead, moron, mug, mugful, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, noodle, numskull, simpleton, sucker, zany), أبله (asinine, ass, brainless, coot, cuckoo, daw, dense, dim witted, fatuous, feeble minded, gaga, gawky, goofy, half-witted, idiotic, imbecile, lemon, mad, patsy, screwed, sheepish, silly, sod, sodden, softy, soppy, stick in the mud, stupid, vacant, vacuous, wood-headed). (various references) | |
Czech | tupec (blockhead, zombie). (various references) | |
French | lourdaud, idiot, benêt, balourd (dumb). (various references) | |
German | Dummkopf (ass, blockhead, bonehead, booby, chump, dimwit, dunce, fool, goose, half wit, idiot, imbecile, jackass, loggerhead, meathead, nit, nitwit, pinhead, thick, thickhead, thick-head). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מטומטם (bird brained, dense, dopey, gaga, goon, half wit, halfwitted, imbecile, lame brain, lout, muddleheaded, oafish, obtuse, sot, stupid, thickheaded, woodenheaded). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tökfej (addle-pate, blockhead, chucklehead, chump, dolt, doodle, dumbo, dummy, lunk, lunkhead, meatball, mooncalf, mooncalves, mutt, muttonhead, mutton-head, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, noodle, numb-skull, numskull, pinhead, pudding-head, sap, softy, veg). (various references) | |
Indonesian | orang dungu (dolt, fathead). (various references) | |
Italian | tonto (booby, deadhead, dull, dummy, dunce, foolish, Looby, obtuse, stupid). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鈍い" (dolt), 愚図 (indecisive person). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぐず (indecisive person), にぶいおと" (dolt). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ullardday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cretino (cretin, cretinous, dunce, mooncalf, nitwit, nitwitted), bronco (clod, crude, dunderhead, harsh, raw, rough, shaggy, slow, stupid, thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted), basbaque (gaper, gawk). (various references) | |
Romanian | prost (ass, bad, badly, beef-witted, blinkard, blockhead, blunt, booby, calf, cheap, clumsy, cock eyed, common, dead, dolt, doltish, donkey, dull, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, flat, fool, foolish, good for nothing, goof, goon, goose, Goosey, gull, harmful, idiot, idiotish, inhospitable, lousy, lubber-head, miserable, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, numskulled, oaf, oafish, pin head, poor, poorly, silly, simple, simpleton, snipe, soft, soft-headed, sorry, spoony, stupid, thoughtless, unfavorable, unfavourable, wretched, zombie), neghiob (blockhead, booby, clumsy, dolt, foolish, lubber-head, sheep, sheepish, silly, simpleton, stupid, zany), adormit (benumbed, dead, dopey, dormant, drowsy, drowsyhead, enervated, flat, mope, sleeper, sleepily, sleeping, sleepy, sluggish, tame, torpid). (various references) | |
Russian | тупица (blinker, blockhead, boeotian, bonehead, bone-head, cabbage-head, duffer, dunce, goof, goon, leather-head, lob, lubber-head, nerd, numbskull, numskull, thick, thickhead), заторможенный (delayed). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tupoglavac (slow witted). (various references) | |
Spanish | de zoquete, zoquete (block, chump, clod, duffer, lump, numskull, oaf), estúpido (addle-brained, addle-head, addle-pated, anserine, asinine, blockhead, blunderhead, bone head, brainless, coot, crass, dense, dim witted, donkey, dull, idiot, idiotic, lame brain, lumpish, obtuse, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, senseless, soft, stupe, stupid). (various references) | |
Swedish | slöfock (drone, slacker, slouch, slowcoach, slowpoke, sluggard, vegetable). (various references) | |
Turkish | sersem (addle-brained, addle-headed, addle-pated, clod, dizzy, dope, dozy, dull, foggy, foolish, giddy, gunsel, happy, light-headed, muddleheaded, muzzy, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, oaf, oafish, opaque, scatterbrain, scatterbrained, scatty, sheepish, silly, slob, stupid, woozy), mankafa (blockhead, bonehead, bone-headed, chump, dunce, dunderhead, fathead, fat-head, fat-headed, mutt, Numbskull, numskull, pinhead, pudding-head, purblind, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, saphead, slow witted, slowcoach, slowpoke, soft, soft in the head, softhead, thickhead, thickheaded). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тупиця (boeotian, clot, dodo, duffer, dunce, goon, jerk, lob, thick-head, wampus). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người ngu đần (beetle-brain, boeotian, dolt, log-head, looby, mutton-head, nitwit, stupid), người đần độn (ass, beetle-brain, blockhead, boeotian, bone-head, chuckle-head, dolt, dope, fat-head, feather-brain, feather-head, numbskull, numskull, sheep's-head, thickhead). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dullard": dullards. (additional references) | |
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"Dullard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dallari, Dalsland, Delbard, Delfland, dellar, dellorto, dolard, Dolland, dollard, dollardom, Dulari, dullor, Dunlarg, Udlaidh, Ullar, Ullyart. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-l-l-r-u" | |
-2 letters: dural. | |
-3 letters: auld, duad, dual, dull, dura, lard, laud, rudd. | |
-4 letters: add, all, dad, dal, dud, lad, lar, rad, urd. | |
-5 letters: ad, al, ar, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-l-l-r-u" | |
+1 letter: dullards. | |
+3 letters: dreadfully. | |
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