doltish

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adjective

Like a dolt; dull in intellect; stupid.

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cloddishstupid
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Meanings

adjectivedoltish (comparative more doltish, superlative most doltish)

comparative more doltish · superlative most doltish

  1. Like a dolt; dull in intellect; stupid.

    Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends' glarings is a doltish stare!

    1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveheavy and dull and stupid

Similar
cloddishstupid
Also see
cloddishstupid

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From dolt + -ish.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

oldshit
Cite this entry
APA

doltish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doltish

MLA

“doltish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doltish. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “doltish,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doltish.

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