beetle-headed
beetle-headed adjective: mentally dull; stupid.
Adjective
beetle-headed (comparative more beetle-headed, superlative most beetle-headed)
- Mentally dull; stupid.
- A whoreson, beetle-headed, flap-ear’d knave!c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- One was a solemn-faced beetle-headed man with ginger hair[.]1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 61
- Synonyms:
- addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained, beef-witted, soft, beefheaded, birdbrained, blockheaded, Boeotian
Synonyms of beetle-headed
- addlebrained
- addlepated
- airheaded
- bee-brained
- beef-witted
- soft
- beefheaded
- birdbrained
- blockheaded
- Boeotian
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- boneheaded
- boofheaded
- braindead
- brainless
- bubbleheaded
- buffle-headed
- bullet-headed
- cerebrally challenged
- childish
- chowderheaded
- chuckleheaded
- crackbrained
- cretinous
- daft
- dense
- dented
- dim-bulb
- dim-headed
- dim-witted
- dim
- doltish
- dopey
- dozy
- drowsy
- dull-headed
- dull-minded
- dull-witted
- dull
- dumber than a box of rocks
- dumb
Forms of beetle-headed
| comparative | more beetle-headed |
|---|---|
| superlative | most beetle-headed |
Questions about beetle-headed
- What does beetle-headed mean?
- Beetle-headed means mentally dull; stupid.
- What part of speech is beetle-headed?
- Beetle-headed is an adjective.
Words near beetle-headed in the dictionary
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