doltishness
21dolt — (n.) 1540s, perhaps a variant of dold dull, foolish, influenced by dulte, dolte, pp. forms of M.E. dullen to dull, make or become dazed or stupid (see DULL (Cf. dull)). Related: Doltish; doltishly; doltishness …
22dolt — [dəʊlt] noun a stupid person. Derivatives doltish adjective doltishly adverb doltishness noun Origin C16: perh. a var. of dulled, past participle of dull …
23folly — n. 1. Foolishness, imbecility, fatuity, stupidity, shallowness, dulness, doltishness. 2. Absurdity, foolishness, extravagance, unwisdom, imprudence, nonsense, fatuity, indiscretion. 3. Act of folly, foolish act, indiscretion, blunder, faux pas. 4 …
24foolishness — n. 1. Folly, silliness, imbecility, stupidity, fatuity, shallowness, dulness, doltishness. 2. Absurdity, extravagance, nonsense, imprudence, indiscretion. 3. Puerility, childishness, triviality …
25obtuseness — n. 1. Bluntness. 2. Dulness, stupidity, stolidity, doltishness, obtusion, obtusity. 3. Dulness, obscurity …
26stolidity — n. Stupidity, dulness, foolishness, doltishness, obtuseness, stolidness …
27stupidity — n. 1. Dulness, obtuseness, insensibility, sottishness, blockishness, doltishness, senselessness, sluggishness of understanding, slowness of apprehension. 2. Lifelessness, heaviness, insipidity, tameness, vapidness, want of interest, stupidness. 3 …
28stupidity — noun 1) he cursed their stupidity Syn: lack of intelligence, foolishness, denseness, brainlessness, ignorance, dull wittedness, slow wittedness, doltishness, slowness; informal thickness, dimness, dopiness 2) the stupidity of the question Syn …
29asininity — n 1. stupidity, stupidness, Inf. dumbness, Inf. dopiness, empty headedness, unintelligence, dullness, fatuity; doltishness, oafishness, loutishness, obtuseness; obstinacy, obstinateness, stubbornness. 2. idiocy, Inf. moronity, Inf. moronism,… …
30churlishness — n 1. rusticity, ruralism, agrarianism; pastoralism, pastorality, bucolicism; inurbanity, back woodsiness, provincialism, provinciality, yokelism, Sl. hickishness; hominess, homeliness, homishness, Inf. folksiness. 2. boorishness, loutishness,… …
