dunce
Meaning of dunce
- a person who is slow at learning; a stupid person.
he was baffled by arithmetic and they called him a dunce at school
early 16th century: originally an epithet for a follower of John Duns Scotus (see Duns Scotus, John), whose followers were ridiculed by 16th-century humanists and reformers as enemies of learning.
Information about dunce
- It is a name.
- The plural form of dunce is: dunces.
- Languages in which dunce is used:
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Hyphenation of dunce
dunce
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- dunce is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
dunce synonyms
Meaning dunderhead:
dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, dumbass, fuckhead
Meaning a person who acts unwisely or imprudently; a silly person:
Meaning a stupid person:
idiot, dolt, moron, imbecile, dummy, dumbo, thickhead, dope, booby, fathead, meathead, lamebrain, berk, pillock, doofus, dumbhead
Meaning a foolish or gullible person:
Meaning a foolish or stupid person:
halfwit, nincompoop, ass, goof
Meaning an ignorant or stupid person:
Meaning a man who is rough or clumsy and unintelligent:
Meaning a slow or stupid person:
Meaning a stupid person (used as a general term of abuse):
Meaning a foolish or clumsy person:
Meaning a silly or foolish person (often as a general term of abuse):
Meaning a stupid or silly person:
Meaning an incompetent or stupid person:
Meaning a foolish or easily deceived person:
Meaning a stupid or foolish person:
Meaning a base close to the area of active operations where supplies and troops can be received and evacuated by air:
Meaning a silly or stupid person:
Meaning a contemptibly foolish person:
Meaning a foolish and weak person:
Meaning a stupid or inept person:
Meaning a silly or inept person:
Meaning a stupid or ineffectual person:
Meaning a silly or annoying person:
Meaning a dividend or share, especially of profits earned by a cooperative:
Meaning the egg or young form of a louse or other parasitic insect, especially the egg of a human head louse attached to a hair:
Meaning a large cup, typically cylindrical with a handle and used without a saucer:
Meaning a naive or stupid person:
Meaning a foolish or contemptible person:
Meaning a stupid or worthless person:
Meaning a stupid or insignificant man:
Meaning an embarrassing mistake:
Meaning a stupid, inept, or dull person:
Meaning a clumsy, stupid person:
Meaning a large mainly domesticated game bird native to North America, having a bald head and (in the male) red wattles. It is a popular food on festive occasions such as Christmas and (in the US) Thanksgivin:
Meaning a small Australian cockatoo with a grey back and rosy pink head and underparts:
Meaning a songbird with glossy black plumage and typically a long forked tail and a crest, found in Africa, southern Asia, and Australia:
Meaning a stupid or eccentric person:
dunce antonyms
Meaning exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural ability:
Anagrams of dunce
Words that rhyme with dunce
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