Duncish

Duncish
Duncish Dun"cish, a. Somewhat like a dunce. [R.] -- {Dun"cish*ness}, n. [R.] [1913 Webster]

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  • duncish — dunc·ish …   English syllables

  • duncish — adjective (used informally) stupid • Syn: ↑blockheaded, ↑boneheaded, ↑duncical, ↑fatheaded, ↑loggerheaded, ↑thick, ↑thickheaded, ↑thick skulled, ↑wooden headed …   Useful english dictionary

  • Duncishness — Duncish Dun cish, a. Somewhat like a dunce. [R.] {Dun cish*ness}, n. [R.] [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Duncical — Dun ci*cal, a. Like a dunce; duncish. [1913 Webster] The most dull and duncical commissioner. Fuller. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • dunce — duncical, duncish, adj. duncishly, adv. /duns/, n. a dull witted, stupid, or ignorant person; dolt. [1520 30; after John DUNS SCOTUS, whose writings were attacked by the humanists as foolish] Syn. dullard, numbskull, blockhead, ignoramus,… …   Universalium

  • asinine — Synonyms and related words: Boeotian, absurd, airy, apish, batty, beef brained, beef witted, befooled, beguiled, besotted, blockish, bovid, bovine, brainless, buffoonish, caprid, caprine, catchpenny, chumpish, cloddish, cockeyed, cowish, cowlike …   Moby Thesaurus

  • blockish — Synonyms and related words: Boeotian, asinine, beef brained, beef witted, blockheaded, bovine, chuckleheaded, chumpish, cloddish, cowish, crass, dense, doltish, dull, dullard, dumb, duncical, duncish, fat, gross, ineducable, klutzy, lumpish,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • bovine — Synonyms and related words: Boeotian, Brahman, Indian buffalo, asinine, aurochs, beef, beef cattle, beef brained, beef witted, beeves, bison, blockish, bossy, bovid, bovine animal, buffalo, bull, bullock, calf, caprid, caprine, carabao, cattle,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • cloddish — Synonyms and related words: Boeotian, asinine, beef brained, beef witted, blockish, boorish, bovine, carlish, chumpish, churlish, clodhopping, clownish, countrified, country born, country bred, cowish, crass, dense, doltish, dullard, dumb,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • crass — Synonyms and related words: Boeotian, absolute, arrant, asinine, beef brained, beef witted, blockish, bovine, broad bodied, bulky, bullnecked, chumpish, churlish, classical, cloddish, coarse, complete, consummate, corpulent, cowish, crude,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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