numbskulled

English

Etymology

numb +‎ skulled

Adjective

numbskulled (comparative more numbskulled, superlative most numbskulled)

  1. (informal) stupid.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stupid
    • 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 820:
      He opens his mouth to scold her, to let her know that itʼs precisely her numbskulled inability to understand thereʼs more to the world than plum-cake and cocoa thatʼs allowed this calamity to happen in the first place.
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