Dolt

Definition: Dolt

Dolt

Noun

1. A person who is not very bright: "The economy, stupid!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dolt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1604. (references)

Synonyms: Dolt

Fool

Noun: 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.

Crosswords: Dolt

Albanian

teveqel (dull, dummy, fool, foolish, imbecile, innocent, noodle, simpleton, zany, zombie), gdhë (bonehead, chump, duffer, dunce, dunderhead, knot, knur, knurr, muggins, sang, wooden, yokel). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مغفل (dense, dullard, 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), ‏غالبي, ‏الأبله (blockhead, booby, cake, cloddish, goof, goon, half wit, idiot, moron, natural). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тъпак (ass, blockhead, blunderhead, dimwit, dope, dumbbell, dunce, dunderhead, fool, jolterhead, leather-head, loggerhead, loon, lug, lummox, lunkhead, sheep's head, thick, tomnoddy, witling, yo-yo). (various references)

Czech

hlupák (ass, blockhead, booby, chump, dotterel, dottrel, dunce, dupe, fool, gaby, half wit, idiot, ignoramus, jobbernowl, leather-head, loggerhead, pudding-head, sap-head, simpleton, thick-head, tomfool). (various references)

Farsi 

کله خر, احمقانه رفتارکردن , ابله (Asinine, Blister, Doodle, Doter, Fool, Imbecile, Mome, Screwball, Silly, Simpleton). (various references)

Finnish

tomppeli (ass, fool). (various references)

French

balourd. (various references)

German

Tölpel (booby, fool, gannet, gawk, hick, jay, muddler, rube, slob, yokel). (various references)

Greek 

βλάκασ (booby, chump, coot, dimwit, dope, duffer, gander, goof, goon, gudgeon, ignoramus, imbecile, jackass, lummox, moron, mutt, nincompoop, noodle, oaf, simp, simpleton, slob, stupid, sucker, tomfool, zany). (various references)

Hebrew 

שוט�" (barmy, brainless, daft, dupe, fool, idiot, imbecile, noodle, oaf, sappy, silly, stupid), כסיל (dupe, fool, moron, oaf, simpleton). (various references)

Hungarian

tökfilkó (blockhead, blunderhead, cabbage-head, chuckle, dimwit, dunce, gaby, goof, goon, goop, jobbernowl, jolterhead, loggerhead, loghead, lunkhead, mutt, mutton head, mutton-headed, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, noodle, numb-skull, numskull, sap, silly billy, simp, simple sammy, softy, tom-noddy). (various references)

Indonesian

orang dungu (dullard, fathead). (various references)

Italian

ottuso (blunt, dense, dull, fatwitted, logy, muffled, obtuse, pointless, slow, slow witted, stuffy, thick, witless). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鈍い�"� (dullard). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

にぶいおと�" (dullard). (various references)

Manx

donnan (dunce, stupid person, wretch). (various references)

Pig Latin

oltday.(various references)

Portuguese

pateta (batty, booby, calf, chuckle-head, chump, clod-poll, coot, cracky, crazy, cuddy, daft, doodle, driveller, dumb, dupe, fanny, fat-head, fool, gander, gawk, goof, goofy, goose, idiot, jackanapes, jay, jolterhead, josser, juggins, know-nothing, loggerhead, looby, lubber-head, lummox, mooncalf, mutt, mutton-headed, natural, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, oaf, poop, prodigy, pudding-head, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, sawney, silly, simp, simpleton, slob, softhead, softy, spoony, stupid, sucker, tomfool, tom-noddy, zany), palerma (batty, chuckle, gawky, goof, hawbuck, log, loggerhead, lummox, mope, nincompoop, noddy), estúpido (addle-brained, addled, ass, blockhead, blockish, blunderer, blunderhead, boeotian, booby, bovine, chuckle-head, chump, crass, dense, dim-witted, dull, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, fat-head, fatuous, featherbrained, fool, foolish, goofy, jolterhead, lubber, lubber-head, lubberly, lumpish, mindless, mutton-head, mutton-headed, numskull, oafish, obtuse, pigheaded, silly, slow, stock, stupe, stupid, thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted, unintelligent, vacuous), besta (animal, arbalest, beast, blockhead, bow, brute, cattle, cross-bow, fool, stupid). (various references)

Romanian

prostãnac (Cully, daft, fat, fat-head, gowk, gudgeon, hobbledehoy, noodle, nut, pigeon, soft-headed, tomfool, zany), prost (ass, bad, badly, beef-witted, blinkard, blockhead, blunt, booby, calf, cheap, clumsy, cock eyed, common, dead, doltish, donkey, dull, dullard, 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), neisprãvit (blockhead, callow, dunce, dunderhead, endless, rotter, silly, undergrown, unfinished), neghiob (blockhead, booby, clumsy, dullard, foolish, lubber-head, sheep, sheepish, silly, simpleton, stupid, zany), mocofan (blockhead, clodhopper, lout, oaf), mangafa (blockhead, duffer), cretan (cretan), caraghios (antic, blockhead, booby, buffoon, comic, eccentric, fool, foolish, funny, ridiculous, ridiculously, screaming, singular, strange, zany), bleg (blockhead, drooping, flabby, flaccid, foolish, half hearted, remiss, sheepish, shy, silly, skulker, sloppy, sluggish, timid, weak, weakly). (various references)

Russian 

болван (beetle-head, berk, blockhead, blunderhead, boob, booby, chuckle-head, chump, chunk, doodle, dope, dumbbell, dumbo, dumbo the flying elephant, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, fat-head, fool, goon, hardhead, jackass, jobbernowl, jolterhead, leather-head, loggerhead, loghead, log-head, lubber-head, lump, lunkhead, mutt, mutton head, mutton-head, nerd, numskull, pudding-head). (various references)

Scottish

ùmpaidh (blockhead), ùmaidh. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

glupak (chuckle-head, chump, jobbernowl, jolterhead, juggins, lame brain, noodle, simpleton), budala (bullhead, cockeye, cuckoo, dumdum, fool, gaby, gawk, half wit, jackass, josser, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, sap, tomfool). (various references)

Spanish

mastuerzo (cress, dope), lerdo (dim, dim witted, dull, dumb, fatheaded, heavy, oafish, thick), imbécil (anile, dimwit, fathead, feeble minded, fool, half-witted, idiotic, imbecile, mindless, moronic, prat, silly, stupid, twit, wrong, you imbecile), bobo (asinine, boob, booby, crazy, daft, dumbbell, dunce, fool, foolish, gawk, goof, half wit, half-witted, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, juggins, lemon, loony, loose, lummox, mug, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, noddy, noodle, numbhead, oafish, sap, saphead, silly, simple simon, soft-headed, soppy, stupid, stupide, sucker, wet, yo-yo). (various references)

Swedish

träskalle (blockhead, dodo, woodenhead). (various references)

Turkish

salak (country bumpkin, crazy, cretin, dimwitted, doltish, dope, dopey, fool, gullible, idiot, jerky, ninny, obtuse, silly, stupid, sucker), alık (booby, chump, dimwitted, gunsel, nincompoop, scatterbrained, scatty, simpleton, wooden), ahmak (addled, ass, blockhead, boob, bumpkin, cabbagehead, chucklehead, chumpish, clot, country bumpkin, crass, cretin, deadly dull, dimwitted, doltish, dreary, dullish, dumb bell, dunderhead, dunderheaded, fathead, fool, foolish, gander, gawk, gawky, goat, goof, goose, greenhorn, Gubbins, half wit, half-witted, hayseed, idiot, jackass, jerk, josser, kookaburra, light in the head, loon, lummox, lump, muggins, mutt, mutton head, noddy, numskull, prune, pudding-head, sap, saphead, sappy, schlepper, simp, soft, stupid, twerp). (various references)

Turkmen 

pekge (dunce). (various references)

Ukrainian

дурень (ass, blunderhead, bone head, booby, bullhead, changeling, chump, clod, clot, dimwit, donkey, fool, fop, gander, imbecile, jackass, moke, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, omadhaun, owl, pinhead, pudding-head, softy, stupe, stupid, tomfool, you imbecile). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người ngu đần (beetle-brain, boeotian, dullard, log-head, looby, mutton-head, nitwit, stupid), người đần độn (ass, beetle-brain, blockhead, boeotian, bone-head, chuckle-head, dope, dullard, fat-head, feather-brain, feather-head, numbskull, numskull, sheep's-head, thickhead). (various references)

Welsh

delff (churl, oaf, rascal), clwpa (boss, club, knob). (various references)

asini, asinis, asino, asinorum, asinos, asinum, asinus, baro, petro. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dolt": doltish, doltishly, doltishness, doltishnesses, dolts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dolt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dalit, dalt, delt, delzt, dilt, Diolch, dlog, dlom, dlon, dobt, doct, doet, doft, Doit, dol, Do'l, dold, dolg, dolh, doli, doln, dolo, dolte, doltz, dolv, donlt, dool, doolb, doot, dort, Dott, doult, D'oulx, dout, dovleti, dowt, Dowth, dozl, duld, dult, Dyott, idlot, idolt, odit, odot, olt, yolt, zolt. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: told.

-1 letter: dol, dot, lot, old, tod.

-2 letters: do, lo, od, to.

+1 letter: dolts, dotal, toled.

+2 letters: bolted, dalton, diglot, dottel, dottle, drylot, jolted, lofted, looted, lotted, louted, molted, oldest, retold, stoled, stolid, tholed, toddle, toiled, toledo, tolled, toluid, tooled, untold.

+3 letters: bloated, blotted, boldest, bottled, clothed, clotted, clouted, coldest, cotidal, couldst, daltons, delator, deltoid, dicotyl, diglots, dilator, dilutor, diplont, dithiol, doltish, dottels, dottily, dottles, dottrel, doublet, droplet, drylots, feedlot, floated, flouted, foldout, footled, gloated, glouted, goldest, holdout, jostled, lentoid, leotard, letdown, lithoed, lithoid, loathed, lobated, located, loudest, mottled, moulted, notedly, oldster, outduel, outlaid, outland, outplod, outsold, outtold, piloted, plotted, plotzed, sandlot, slotted, solated, stooled, styloid, tabloid, tadpole, taloned, telford, tenfold, toddled, toddler, toddles, toehold, toggled, toledos, tolidin, toluide, toluids, tootled, toppled, totaled, tousled, touzled, toweled, trifold, troland, trolled, twofold, voluted, woodlot, wouldst.