dolt

(dōlt)

A stupid person; a dunce.

[Middle English dulte, from past participle of dullen, to dull, from dul, dull; see dull.]

dolt′ish adj.

dolt′ish·ly adv.

dolt′ish·ness n.

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dolt

(dəʊlt)

a slow-witted or stupid person

[C16: probably related to Old English dol stupid; see dull]

ˈdoltish adj

ˈdoltishly adv

ˈdoltishness n

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dolt

(doʊlt)

n.

a blockhead; dunce.

[1535–45; variant of obsolete dold stupid]

dolt′ish, adj.

dolt′ish•ly, adv.

dolt′ish•ness, n.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

dolt - a person who is not very bright; "The economy, stupid!"

dullard, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid, stupid person

berk - a stupid person who is easy to take advantage of

blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull - a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence

klutz - (Yiddish) a clumsy dolt

simpleton, simple - a person lacking intelligence or common sense

dolt

noun idiot, fool, dope (informal), jerk (slang, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), ass, clot (Brit. informal), plank (Brit. slang), charlie (Brit. informal), berk (Brit. slang), prick (derogatory slang), wally (slang), booby, prat (slang), plonker (slang), coot, geek (slang), twit (informal, chiefly Brit.), chump (informal), dunce, oaf, simpleton, dullard, dimwit (informal), ignoramus, dipstick (Brit. slang), gonzo (slang), schmuck (U.S. slang), dork (slang), nitwit (informal), blockhead, dweeb (U.S. slang), putz (U.S. slang), fathead (informal), eejit (Scot. & Irish), thicko (Brit. slang), dumb-ass (slang), gobshite (Irish taboo slang), numpty (Scot. informal), doofus (slang, chiefly U.S.), lamebrain (informal), fuckwit (taboo slang), thickhead, dickwit (slang), nerd or nurd (slang), numbskull or numskull He's a first class dolt.

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dolt

noun

A mentally dull person:

blockhead, chump, clod, dullard, dummkopf, dummy, dunce, numskull, thickhead.

Slang: dimwit, dumbbell, dumbo.

Translations

mastuerzo patán zopenco

dolt

[dəʊlt] N → imbécil mf
you dolt! → ¡imbécil!

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

dolt

n → Tölpel m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

dolt

[dəʊlt] n → imbecille m/f

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Let him question me whoever will: to a dolt, however, I shall hardly answer."

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"Idiot!" the Prince cried, "Oh, the dolt! Why, even his wife was amazed."

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'Were there more than one, dolt, that you ask the question?--If that gentleman should send here for his wardrobe, let him have it, do you hear?

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He really is a dolt, I suppose, in other things; but it answers his one purpose very well.'

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"Did the man run away, Dolt, when we stopped for the drag?"

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'What would become of a dolt like you?' she answered.

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Look here, fool and dolt (for so I may call you, when you don't understand my words, and run away from good fortune), if I had said that my daughter was to throw herself down from a tower, or go roaming the world, as the Infanta Dona Urraca wanted to do, you would be right in not giving way to my will; but if in an instant, in less than the twinkling of an eye, I put the 'Don' and 'my lady' on her back, and take her out of the stubble, and place her under a canopy, on a dais, and on a couch, with more velvet cushions than all the Almohades of Morocco ever had in their family, why won't you consent and fall in with my wishes?"

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He immediately made him the butt of his pleasantries; and cracked off two or three good hits, that caused the sluggish dolt to prick up his ears, and delighted all the company.

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"Gratitude easily becomes love in a woman's heart"--answered the dear creature, with a smile and a look that Betts would have been a mere dolt not to have comprehended--"and it is my duty to take care that MY gratitude does not entertain this weakness."

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And yet, in spite of the killing pace and the stony track, who but the sluggard or the dolt can hold aloof from the course?

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"Well, gentlemen," said Joe, "you may try their fall over again, if you like; but, as for me, who am but a dolt, I prefer keeping at the medium height--neither too far up, nor too low down.

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"I hardly know; but wait a moment - idiot, I think it was - no, no, it was fool or dolt. Yes; his majesty said that the man who had thought of the vin de Melun was something of the sort."

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