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Stupe

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

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Blockhead 76% connected

A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.

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Dunce 76% connected

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

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Dunderhead 76% connected

A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead.

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Hammerhead 76% connected

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…

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klutz 76% connected

A person who is clumsy or accident-prone

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Loggerhead 76% connected

A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull.

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Numskull 76% connected

A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow.

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Simple 76% connected

Single; not complex; not infolded or entangled; uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as, a simple substance;…

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Simpleton 76% connected

A person of weak intellect; a silly person.

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Dolt 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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.

Dullard 92% connected

A stupid person; a dunce.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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.

Stupid 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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