Dullard
noun
A person who is not very smart or quick to understand things.
He was laughed at from school for being such a dullard.
Often appears as...
- such a dullard
- complete dullard
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Disapproving
noun
A person who is boring and not interesting.
She quickly lost interest in the conversation with the dullard.
Often appears as...
- boring dullard
- uninspiring dullard
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A person who is not very smart or quick to understand things.
He was laughed at from school for being such a dullard.
Often appears as...
- such a dullard
- complete dullard
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A person who is boring and not interesting.
She quickly lost interest in the conversation with the dullard.
Often appears as...
- boring dullard
- uninspiring dullard
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The word 'dullard' implies a negative view of a person's intelligence and should be used cautiously.
I regret calling him a dullard; it was insensitive.
Pro Tip 2/3Notably Unintelligent
'Dullard' typically describes someone who noticeably lacks understanding or intelligence, more than just slow learning.
Even simple tasks prove challenging for the dullard in the group.
Pro Tip 3/3Informal Use
'Dullard' is informal and may appear rude in professional or academic contexts.
During lunch, some coworkers referred to the new hire as a dullard.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The word 'dullard' implies a negative view of a person's intelligence and should be used cautiously.
I regret calling him a dullard; it was insensitive.
Pro Tip 2/3Notably Unintelligent
'Dullard' typically describes someone who noticeably lacks understanding or intelligence, more than just slow learning.
Even simple tasks prove challenging for the dullard in the group.
Pro Tip 3/3Informal Use
'Dullard' is informal and may appear rude in professional or academic contexts.
During lunch, some coworkers referred to the new hire as a dullard.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The word 'dullard' implies a negative view of a person's intelligence and should be used cautiously.
I regret calling him a dullard; it was insensitive.
Pro Tip 2/3Notably Unintelligent
'Dullard' typically describes someone who noticeably lacks understanding or intelligence, more than just slow learning.
Even simple tasks prove challenging for the dullard in the group.
Pro Tip 3/3Informal Use
'Dullard' is informal and may appear rude in professional or academic contexts.
During lunch, some coworkers referred to the new hire as a dullard.
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Quote examples
Edmund White
American Novelist
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
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Hunter S. Thompson
American Journalist
As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.
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Dav Pilkey
American Author
Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white... They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there's nothing they can do about it because they have no power.
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Jo Brand
British Comedian
Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slightly clammy, beatifically smiley dullards with barely a personality between them.
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Rob Lowe
American Actor
Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard.
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Toyah Willcox
English Musician
I can't live in a world of dullards. So I think on that level, I'm definitely punk.
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Edmund White
American Novelist
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
Quote examples
Hunter S. Thompson
American Journalist
As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.
Quote examples
Dav Pilkey
American Author
Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white... They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there's nothing they can do about it because they have no power.
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Jo Brand
British Comedian
Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slightly clammy, beatifically smiley dullards with barely a personality between them.
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Rob Lowe
American Actor
Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard.
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Toyah Willcox
English Musician
I can't live in a world of dullards. So I think on that level, I'm definitely punk.
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