Dopey

Definition: Dopey

Dopey

Adjective

1. (informal) having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books".

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Date "dopey" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Dopey

Crosswords: Dopey

Manx (dope).

For the love of Pete it's the Wicked Witch and Dopey! (Holiday; writing credit: Donald Ogden Stewart)

I'll be Andy and you be Dopey. (The Ernest Film Festival; writing credit: Georg Schiemann)

This is Dopey, he don't talk none (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; writing credit: Ted Sears; Richard Creedon)

Dopey may leave the Seven Dwarfs to pursue more dramatic roles (House of Mouse; writing credit: Tracy Berna; Kevin Campbell)

Dopey pappy sheet eater (South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut; writing credit: Trey Parker; Matt Stone)

A Dopey Hacienda (1970)

The Pink Whale Dopey Dick (1957)

Dopey Dicks (1950)

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Books

• A dozen dopey yarns : tales from the pot prohibition (reference)

• Disney's Dopey Loses the Diamonds (reference)

• Dopey Jack and the Bean Stack (reference)

• Uh Oh, Dopey!: From Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (reference)

• Walt Disney Productions presents Dopey gets lost (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Expressions using "dopey": be dopey ♦ dopey state. Additional references.

Beginning with "dopey": dopey-like.

Albanian

i topitur (blunt, dopy, dull, listless, obtuse, torpid, unpointed), i përgjumur (asleep, dopy, dormant, dozy, drowsy, lethargic, sleepy, slumberous, somnolent, soporific), i droguar (addict, dopy, drugged, hooked). (various references)

Arabic 

‏بليد (bovine, dim, doltish, dull, inanimate, lethargic, light minded, lumpish, obtuse, passive, silly, sleepy, slow, slow moving, sluggish, stupid, thick-headed, torpid, unworkable). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сънен (dopy, heavy, sleepy), унесен (dopy, heavy, stuporous), упоен (dopy, languorous, poppied), тъп (asinine, blunt, bovine, cloddish, crass, dense, dim, dim witted, dopy, dull, dumb, gross, hollow, impenetrable, lumpish, muddle-headed, obtuse, opaque, puddingy, purblind, slow, sodden, stupid, thick, thick-headed, thick-witted, torpid, unpointed, wooden-headed), глупав (anserine, asinine, blackhearted, blithering, blockish, blunt, brainless, cockscomb, crass, daft, dense, dim witted, dopy, dozy, fat, fatuous, flat-footed, fool, foolish, footless, footling, goofy, hebetate, inane, inept, irrational, lame brain, lumpish, lunatic, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, off one's nut, piffling, puddingy, puerile, purblind, sappy, senseless, silly, simple, slow witted, stockish, stupid, thick, thick-skulled, thick-witted, tomfool, trumpery, unintelligent, unwise, vacant, vacuous, whacked, witless, wooden-headed), махмурлия (dopy, rocky, under the weather). (various references)

Chinese 

迟�'� (Obtuseness, slowness). (various references)

Czech

dopovaný, utahaný (bushed, clapped out, dog tired, dog-weary, exhausted, washed out, worn out), pitomý (bloody, daft, dumb, fool, foolish, frigging, gormless, idiotic, jerked), otupìlý (benumbed, besotted, languorous), ospalý (dozy, drowsy, languorous, nappy, sleepy, slumberous, somnolent, soporific), groggy (groggy). (various references)

Farsi 

گیج شده(بوسیله الکل یاماده مخدر), احمق (Asinine, Cockeyed, Cockscomb, Daft, Dense, Dult, Fool, Gawky, Gosling, Hick, Inane, Loggerhead, Loony, Natural, Nincompoop, Noodle, Sawney, Senseless, Simpleton, Sot, Spoony, Stupid, Sucker, Unmeaning). (various references)

French

drogué, douille, dopé, nouille (dope), crétin, andouillé. (various references)

German

doof (blockish, boneheaded, daft, dumb, fool, goofy, soppy, stupid, thick), dämlich (dimwitted, dumb, geeky, goofy, stupid). (various references)

Greek 

βλαμμένος (foolish, jerk, stupid), ναρκωμένοσ (numb, torpid), ηλίθιοσ (booby, clot, cretin, dull, dumb, fool, gawky, goofy, goon, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, mooncalf, moronic, nitwit, poky, sap-head, sheepish, sottish, stupid, thick). (various references)

Hebrew 

מטומטם (bird brained, dense, dullard, gaga, goon, half wit, halfwitted, imbecile, lame brain, lout, muddleheaded, oafish, obtuse, sot, stupid, thickheaded, woodenheaded). (various references)

Hungarian

kábult (comatose, dazed, dizzy, dopy, numb, numbed, slap happy, stunned, stupefied, stupid), lassú agymozgású (dopy). (various references)

Italian

inebetito (dazed, dopy, muzzy). (various references)

Pig Latin

opeyday.(various references)

Portuguese

drogado (dopy, freak-out, junkie, stoned), narcotizado (dopy), embrutecido (dopy). (various references)

Romanian

narcotizant, adormit (benumbed, dead, dormant, drowsy, drowsyhead, dullard, enervated, flat, mope, sleeper, sleepily, sleeping, sleepy, sluggish, tame, torpid). (various references)

Russian 

одурманенный (besotted, blotto, misty-eyed). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

budalast (addle-brained, addle-pate, cock eyed, cockeye, daffy, dippy, dopy, foolish, half-witted, idleheaded, infatuated, nitwitted). (various references)

Spanish

lánguido (dopy, effete, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, limp, listless, quaggy), aturdido (abashed, bewildered, confound, confused, dopy, flurried, fuddled, headless, numbs, stunned, torpid), atontado (befuddled, besotted, dopy, stunned, stupid). (various references)

Swedish

dum (addled, bird brained, blithering, crass, daft, dense, doltish, dopy, dumb, empty headed, fatuous, fool, foolish, goofy, half-witted, idiotic, idle-headed, insensate, lumpish, nitwitted, oafish, opaque, phoney, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, rattle-pated, sappy, silly, stupid, witless), knarkpåverkad (dopy). (various references)

Thai

ง่วงนอน (sleepy). (various references)

Turkish

uyuşmuş (asleep, benumbed, numb, torpid, under the influence of drugs), salak (country bumpkin, crazy, cretin, dimwitted, dolt, doltish, dope, fool, gullible, idiot, jerky, ninny, obtuse, silly, stupid, sucker), hap almış, esrar çekmiş. (various references)

Ukrainian

одурманюючий, млявий (asleep, atonic, indolent, inert, languid, languorous, nerveless, oscitant, remiss). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trì độn (dopy, opaque, slow-witted, torpid), thẫn thờ đần độn (dopy), mơ mơ m� ng m� ng (dopy, moonily), lơ mơ (dopy). (various references)

Misspellings

"Dopey" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deepy, deppei, dipy, dispey, dobey, doei, doey, dogey, Doheny, dohey, dokey, doley, domey, Doney, Dooey, dookey, doope, Doopsey, dopa, dopac, dopee, dopei, dopen, dopery, dopet, dopi, dopy, Dorey, dosey, dotey, dovely, dovey, dozey, Dumphey, dupey, Dupuy, Durey, dusey, duvey, gopey, lopey, odey, odpe, opey, Ophey, Topsey. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dope, dopy, oped.

-2 letters: dey, doe, dye, ode, ope, ped, pod, pye, yep, yod.

-3 letters: de, do, ed, od, oe, op, oy, pe, ye, yo.

+1 letter: deploy, hypoed, ployed.

+2 letters: deploys, epoxyed, popeyed, powdery.

+3 letters: copydesk, copyedit, copyread, deployed, dyspnoea, employed, euploidy, eyedrops, hexapody, hypoderm, jeopardy, pedagogy, pedology, petalody, phoneyed, phyllode, polypide, pyoderma, pyrenoid, redeploy, syphoned.

+4 letters: adipocyte, copydesks, copyedits, copyreads, deploying, dyspnoeas, endolymph, endophyte, endoscopy, eriophyid, hydropses, hypoderms, joypopped, lyophiled, monkeypod, oedipally, outplayed, outprayed, outyelped, overhyped, pelecypod, phyllodes, pointedly, polyamide, polyhedra, polypides, poppyhead, portrayed, predatory, premodify, pseudonym, pterygoid, pyodermas, pyrenoids, pyrolized, pyrolyzed, redeploys, tippytoed.