English
Noun
Sense: (pejorative) fool; person with poor judgment or little intelligence
Synonyms
- alcatote (obsolete)
- asshat (US, vulgar)
- arsehole (British, vulgar)
- asshole (US, vulgar)
- (archaic)
- (British)
- birdbrain
- blither (dated)
- bobchin (obsolete)
- bonehead
- bozo
- buffoon
- brickhead
- Charlie (British, Australian)
- chucklehead
- chowderhead
- clart
- clown
- der-brain
- dill pickle (US, dated)
- dingleberry
- dipshit (vulgar)
- dipstick
- dirtbrain
- div
- divvo
- divvy
- dolt
- donk (Australian)
- doodle (dated)
- [⇒ thesaurus]
- dote (obsolete)
- dotterel
- dullard
- dumbass (US, vulgar)
- dumb fuck (US, vulgar)
- dupe [⇒ thesaurus]
- fathead
- (obsolete)
- fuckwit (vulgar)
- fuzznut (slang)
- geck (archaic)
- gig (Britain, chiefly school slang, archaic or dialectal)
- goober (Southern US)
- gooseberry (British)
- gowk
- gubbins
- gump (dated, US)
- ha'p'orth (dated, British)
- Homer Simpson
- ignoramus [⇒ thesaurus]
- imbecile
- jamoke
- jerk [⇒ thesaurus] (US)
- jerkoff (US, vulgar)
- jolterhead
- jolthead
- juggins
- jughead
- lamebrain
- mameluke (US (Italian-American), slang)
- maroon
- meathead
- mong (British, vulgar)
- moron
- mug (British)
- muggins (British)
- mushhead
- nimrod
- nincompoop (somewhat dated)
- nit
- nitwit
- not the sharpest knife in the drawer
- numskull
- numps (obsolete)
- numpty
- nupson (obsolete)
- oaf
- pillock (British, Irish, Australian, New Zealand)
- plonker (British)
- prat (British)
- retard
- shit for brains (vulgar)
- shithead (vulgar)
- shitwit (vulgar)
- schmo
- schmuck (US)
- softhead
- sot (dated)
- stupid [⇒ thesaurus]
- sucker
- thickhead
- (chiefly British)
- tool [⇒ thesaurus] (Australian)
- tosser (British, vulgar)
- tosspot
- twat (British, vulgar)
- twerp
- twit
- wally (British)
- wantwit
- wazzock (British, Irish)
- yampy (British)
Antonyms
Various
Hypernyms
See also
Further reading
- Appendix:Roget's thesaurus classification
- 4 Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
- 4.1 Division I. Formation of Ideas
- Section V. Results Of Reasoning
- 499. “Imbecility” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- 501. “Fool” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “fool” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.