clodpate
Dim-witted fool
A clodpate is a stupid person—someone with a head (pate) as dense as a clod of earth.
The word is old-fashioned and literary, more likely encountered in Shakespeare than in conversation: What clodpate would believe such a tale?
dolt
Stupid person
- dunderheadA foolish person
- numbskullStupid or foolish person
- boneheadFoolish or stupid person
knucklehead · dunce · dimwit · nitwit · simpleton · ignoramus · buffoon · oaf · lout · dullard
intelligence/mental acuity
clodpategenius
Person of rare brilliance
brain · brilliant · mastermind · intellectual · sage
sophistication/refinement
clodpatesophisticate
Worldly, cultured person
man of the world · cosmopolitan · gentleman · connoisseur · aesthete
blockhead, clod, pate, patella, depilated, cloddish, patellae, pated, baldpated