stupid+rustic
41silly — 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 …
42clod — Synonyms and related words: Boeotian, Chateaubriand, Neanderthal, acres, alluvion, alluvium, anatomy, arable land, ass, batch, blade roast, block, blockhead, blunderer, blunderhead, body, bones, boob, boor, botcher, breast, brisket, bucolic, bulk …
43dull — Synonyms and related words: KO, Laodicean, Olympian, Quaker colored, Spartan, abate, abeyant, abrupt, achromatic, achromatize, achromic, acier, affectless, allay, alleviate, aloof, anemic, anesthetic, anesthetize, anesthetized, apathetic, appease …
44looby — Synonyms and related words: Babbitt, Boeotian, Philistine, arriviste, block, blockhead, blunderer, blunderhead, boor, botcher, bounder, bourgeois, bucolic, bumbler, bumpkin, bungler, cad, churl, clod, clodhopper, clodknocker, clot, clown, country …
45simple — Synonyms and related words: Attic, Bohemian, Ciceronian, Mickey Mouse, Spartan, a certain, absolute, aesthetic, affable, amateur, an, any, any one, arrested, artistic, artless, ascetic, asinine, atomic, austere, authentic, awkward, babbling,… …
46loutish — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. bungling, rustic, clumsy; see awkward 1 , rude 2 , vulgar 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. boorish, clumsy, stupid, oafish, cloddish, dense, rough, churlish, *like a bull in a china shop. ANT.: refined, gracious,… …
47oafish — (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. clumsy, awkward, *klutzy, stupid, ignorant, simple, rustic. ANT.: sophisticated, intelligent, *smooth …
48dumb cluck — n a stupid or gormless person. In origin a rustic Americanism, probably inspired by the supposed stupidity of chickens. See also dumbo …
49shit-for-brains — n a very stupid person. This term of abuse, deriving from an earlier rustic expression on the lines of he/she must have shit for brains , has been wide spread in the USA and Australia since the 1970s. It is now sometimes used adjectivally, as in… …
50backward — adv 1. rearward, towards the back, in reverse, vice versa, upside down, topsyturvy, inside out, back in front; crablike, retrocessive ly, retrogressively, regressively, Scot, and North. Eng. backlins; Naut. aback, Naut. abaft, Naut. aft, Naut.… …
