Blockhead
noun
Someone who is not intelligent or who makes decisions.
He felt like a blockhead for forgetting his wife's birthday.
Often appears as...
- feel like a blockhead
- act like a blockhead
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
Someone who is not intelligent or who makes decisions.
He felt like a blockhead for forgetting his wife's birthday.
Often appears as...
- feel like a blockhead
- act like a blockhead
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
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Pro Tip 1/3Colloquial Usage
Used in informal, casual conversations, but could be offensive if not used among friends.
When Joe forgot his keys again, his buddy laughed and called him a blockhead.
Pro Tip 2/3Slightly Insulting
It implies stupidity or foolishness, so be careful when using it to avoid offending someone.
Calling the new student a blockhead just hurt his feelings.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-literal Meaning
It doesn't mean the person's head is actually like a block of wood—just that they're being unwise or unthinking.
She knew she seemed like a blockhead for mixing up the meeting dates.
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Vladimir Nabokov
American Novelist
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
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Ambrose Bierce
American Journalist
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
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Jean Baudrillard
French Sociologist
The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
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William Hazlitt
English Critic
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French Writer
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
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Alexander Pope
English Poet
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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George Savile
English Politician
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
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Benjamin Franklin
American Politician
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
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Samuel Johnson
English Writer
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
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Warren Buffett
American Businessman
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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Vladimir Nabokov
American Novelist
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
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Ambrose Bierce
American Journalist
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
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Jean Baudrillard
French Sociologist
The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
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William Hazlitt
English Critic
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French Writer
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
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Alexander Pope
English Poet
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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George Savile
English Politician
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
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Benjamin Franklin
American Politician
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
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Samuel Johnson
English Writer
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
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Warren Buffett
American Businessman
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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