Blockhead: alternatives and connections

A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.

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A stupid person; a dunce.

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Cloth or flax dipped in warm water or medicaments and applied to a hurt or sore.

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Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons.

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Like a dunce; duncish.

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Like a dunce; duncish.

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Somewhat like a dunce.

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Somewhat like a dunce.

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One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.

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A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead.

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A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygaena, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zy…

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.