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31addle-headed — a. Foolish, stupid, dull, muddled, doltish, brainless, shallow, soft, sappy, witless, blockish, weak headed, muddle headed, weak minded, feeble minded, half witted, short witted, shallow brained, dull witted, thick skulled, addle pated …
32unintellectual — a. Stupid, dull, obtuse, stolid, doltish, blockish, stockish, heavy, shallow, foolish, simple, soft, sappy, unintelligent, dull witted, blunt witted, weak minded, feeble minded, half witted, shallow brained …
33intelligent — 1 Intellectual, *mental, cerebral, psychic 2 Intelligent, clever, alert, quick witted, bright, smart, knowing, brilliant are comparable when they mean mentally quick or keen. Intelligent implies greater than average power to use one s mind… …
34addlepated — adj 1. muddled, muddleheaded, ad dleheaded, addlebrained; dull, inexpressive, expressionless, stupid, Inf. dumb, Inf. dopey, empty headed, Inf. fatheaded; dull witted, Sl. dimwitted, slow witted, half witted, witless, unwitty; unthinking,… …
35Minstrel show — For the album by Little Brother, see The Minstrel Show. Detail from cover of The Celebrated Negro Melodies, as Sung by the Virginia Minstrels, 1843 The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety …
36silly — sillily, adv. silliness, n. /sil ee/, adj., sillier, silliest, n., pl. sillies. adj. 1. weak minded or lacking good sense; stupid or foolish: a silly writer. 2. absurd; ridiculous; irrational: a silly idea. 3. stunned; dazed: He knocked me silly …
37retarded — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. delayed; mentally deficient or handicapped, braindamaged, moronic; backward, slow. See slowness, insanity. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [ Said of people ] Syn. backward, slow, developmentally disabled; …
38soft — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. supple, pliant; faint, low; kind, lenient; easy. See softness, faintness, leniency, facility. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Pliable] Syn. malleable, pliant, elastic; see flexible 1 . 2. [Soft to the… …
39weak-minded — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. moronic, idiotic, imbecilic, feebleminded; brainless, foolish, witless, empty headed, vacuous; vacillating, irresolute, fickle. See ignorance, doubt. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. foolish, moronic,… …
40dumb — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Unable to speak] Syn. silent, mute, voiceless, speechless, inarticulate, wordless, quiet, mum, aphonic, deaf and dumb*; see also mute 1 , quiet 2 . 2. [Temporarily speechless] Syn. speechless, tongue tied, dumbstruck,… …
