English
Noun
Sense: a person of low intelligence or common sense
Synonyms
- addle-brain
- addlehead
- addle pate (obsolete)
- airhead
- baboon
- beanbrain
- beetlebrain
- beetlehead
- (UK)
- bimbo (slang)
- birdbrain
- blockhead (informal)
- blubberbrain
- bonehead (slang)
- Boeotian
- boob (informal)
- bozo
- brainlet
- brickhead
- bubblehead
- bubble brain
- bufflehead (obsolete)
- buffoon
- Charlie (chiefly Britain, often with "right" and/or "proper")
- chowderhead (US, informal)
- chucklehead (informal)
- chump (informal)
- cittern-head (obsolete)
- clod
- clodpate (dated)
- clot (Britain, slang)
- clown
- crackhead
- cretin
- cuckoo
- deadhead
- dimbo
- dim bulb
- dimbus
- dimwit
- dingbat (informal)
- ding dong (informal)
- dingleberry (slang)
- dingwad (informal)
- dip
- dipstick
- doldrum (slang, obsolete)
- dolt
- donut
- doodle (obsolete)
- doof
- doofoid
- doofus
- dope (slang)
- dork [⇒ thesaurus] (US, slang)
- drivel (obsolete)
- drongo (Australia, NZ, slang)
- drool bucket
- dullard
- dumb bunny
- dumbbell
- dumb cluck
- dumbhead
- dumble
- dumbling
- dumbnut
- dumbo
- dummkopf
- dummy
- dunce
- dunderhead
- dunderpate
- eejit (Irish, Scottish alternative form)
- fathead
- featherbrain
- fenderhead
- fleabrain
- fool [⇒ thesaurus]
- fopdoodle (obsolete)
- galoot
- gimboid (Britain, slang)
- gomer
- gonk
- goober (Southern US)
- goof
- goofball
- goofy
- goose (slang)
- goosecap
- gorbuson (Britain, dialectal, archaic)
- gudgeon (archaic)
- halfwit (informal)
- ha'porth (Britain, slang, dated)
- hammerhead
- idiot
- ignoramus [⇒ thesaurus]
- imbecile
- inbred
- jackaninny
- jellybrain
- jerk [⇒ thesaurus]
- juggins
- jughead
- knothead
- knucklehead
- lackwit
- lamebrain
- log (figurative)
- loggerhead (obsolete)
- lummox
- maroon (slang)
- meatball (slang)
- meathead (slang)
- mental midget (informal)
- mome (obsolete)
- momo (slang)
- mongoloid
- mongtard
- monkey [⇒ thesaurus]
- moron (slang)
- mouth breather (slang)
- muggins (Britain, slang)
- mushhead
- muttonhead
- mutt (US)
- (US, informal)
- nincompoop
- ninny
- ninnyhammer
- nit (slang)
- nitwit
- noddy
- noodlehead
- numbskull
- oaf
- peabrain
- peagoose
- pillock (Britain, slang)
- (rare)
- pinhead
- plank (Britain, slang)
- plonker (Britain, slang)
- prat (Britain, slang)
- put
- putz
- retard (slang)
- sap (slang)
- saphead
- schmo
- silly
- simp (slang)
- simpleton
- snapperhead (slang)
- sot (archaic)
- space cadet (slang)
- spanner
- stupe (slang)
- stupid [⇒ thesaurus]
- stupid-head
- tomfool
- (slang)
- thickskull
- thicko (chiefly Britain, slang)
- tomfool
- (chiefly British)
- toolbox (slang)
- tosspot
- turkey (US, slang)
- twit
- wally
- wantwit
- wazzer (Britain, slang)
- wazzock (Britain, slang)
- witless wonder (slang)
- yo-yo (informal)
- zany
- Vulgar:
- ass (vulgar, slang)
- assclown (vulgar, slang)
- asshat (vulgar, slang)
- asshead (vulgar, slang)
- asstard (vulgar, slang)
- asswipe (vulgar, slang)
- buttbreath (vulgar, slang)
- dildo (vulgar, slang)
- dipshit (vulgar, slang)
- donkey dick (vulgar, slang)
- dumbarse (Britain, vulgar, slang)
- dumbfuck (vulgar, slang)
- dumbfucker (vulgar, slang)
- dumbshit (vulgar, slang)
- farthead (vulgar, slang)
- fuck-knuckle (vulgar, slang)
- fucktard (vulgar, slang)
- fuckwit (vulgar, slang)
- jackass (vulgar, slang)
- peckerhead (vulgar, slang)
- shitbrain (vulgar, slang)
- shithead (vulgar, slang)
- shitneck (vulgar, slang)
- shitwit (vulgar, slang)
- twat (chiefly Britain, vulgar, slang)
Hyponyms
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Various
See also
- Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 450a. Absence of intellect
- Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 499. Imbecility
Further reading
- “idiot” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.