dunces

Meaning of dunces

plural noun
  1. 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 dunces

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of dunces is: dunce.
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Hyphenation of dunces

dunces

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • dunces is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

dunces synonyms

Meaning a person who acts unwisely or imprudently; a silly person:

fool

Meaning a stupid person:

idiot, dolt, moron, imbecile, dummy, dumbo, thickhead, dope, booby, bonehead, blockhead, fathead, meathead, lamebrain, berk, pillock, doofus, dumbhead

Meaning a foolish or gullible person:

simpleton

Meaning a foolish or stupid person:

halfwit, nincompoop, ass, goof

Meaning an ignorant or stupid person:

ignoramus

Meaning a man who is rough or clumsy and unintelligent:

oaf

Meaning a slow or stupid person:

dullard

Meaning a stupid person (used as a general term of abuse):

cretin

Meaning a foolish or clumsy person:

clot

Meaning a silly or foolish person (often as a general term of abuse):

nitwit

Meaning a stupid or silly person:

dimwit

Meaning an incompetent or stupid person:

duffer

Meaning a foolish or easily deceived person:

chump

Meaning a stupid or foolish person:

numbskull

Meaning a base close to the area of active operations where supplies and troops can be received and evacuated by air:

airhead

Meaning a silly or stupid person:

birdbrain

Meaning a contemptibly foolish person:

jerk

Meaning a foolish and weak person:

ninny

Meaning a stupid or inept person:

donkey

Meaning a silly or inept person:

wally

Meaning a stupid or ineffectual person:

numpty

Meaning a silly or annoying person:

twerp

Meaning a dividend or share, especially of profits earned by a cooperative:

divvy

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:

nit

Meaning a large cup, typically cylindrical with a handle and used without a saucer:

mug

Meaning a naive or stupid person:

goofball

Meaning a foolish or contemptible person:

schmuck

Meaning a stupid or worthless person:

putz

Meaning a stupid or insignificant man:

bozo

Meaning an embarrassing mistake:

boob

Meaning a stupid or contemptible person:

dumbass

Meaning a stupid, inept, or dull person:

lamer

Meaning a clumsy, stupid person:

lummox

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:

turkey

Meaning a small Australian cockatoo with a grey back and rosy pink head and underparts:

galah

Meaning a songbird with glossy black plumage and typically a long forked tail and a crest, found in Africa, southern Asia, and Australia:

drongo

Meaning a stupid or eccentric person:

dingbat

dunces antonyms

Meaning exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural ability:

genius

Anagrams of dunces

secund

Words that rhyme with dunces

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