doltish
Lacking mental sharpness
Doltish means stupid or slow-witted, suggesting the thick-headedness of a dolt.
The word carries a slightly old-fashioned, literary quality: His doltish response to the crisis cost us everything.
It implies not just ignorance but a fundamental lack of mental sharpness.
Extremely lacking intelligence
- asinineExtremely foolish or stupid
- moronicExtremely foolish or senseless
- imbecilicExtremely unintelligent or foolish
- sillyFrivolous or absurd
inane · absurd · daft · fatuous · half-witted · harebrained · half-baked · foolish
Closely packed together
obtuse · dimwitted · slow-witted · thickheaded · blockheaded · boneheaded · simple-minded · unintelligent
Lacking physical coordination
- awkwardLacking grace or ease
- bumblingClumsily incompetent
- blunderingActing with clumsy incompetence
- ungainlyLacking ease of movement
oafish · lumbering · cloddish · ham-fisted · ham-handed · loutish · galumphing · graceless
idiotic
Extremely lacking intelligence
- asinineExtremely foolish or stupid
- moronicExtremely foolish or senseless
- imbecilicExtremely unintelligent or foolish
silly · inane · absurd · daft · fatuous · half-witted · harebrained · half-baked · foolish · brainless
dense
Closely packed together
slow · obtuse · dimwitted · slow-witted · thickheaded · blockheaded · boneheaded · simple-minded · unintelligent · vacuous
clumsy
Lacking physical coordination
- awkwardLacking grace or ease
- bumblingClumsily incompetent
- blunderingActing with clumsy incompetence
ungainly · oafish · lumbering · cloddish · ham-fisted · ham-handed · loutish · galumphing · graceless · maladroit
idiot
Foolish, senseless person
halfwit · nincompoop · nitwit · numbskull · blockhead · bonehead · dullard · ignoramus · simpleton · clod
- foolishnessfoolishness, silliness, foolish, stupid, folly
doltishquick-witted
Fast at thinking
sharp-witted · quick · fast · nimble · sharp