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dolt

/dəʊlt//dɒlt/

dolt noun: a stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.

Noun

dolt (plural dolts)

  1. (derogatory) A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.
    • O Gull, oh dolt, / As ignorant as durt:[…]c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
    • Moſt Monſter-like, be ſhewne / For poor'ſt Diminutiues, for Dolts, […]c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

Verb

dolt (third-person singular simple present dolts, present participle dolting, simple past and past participle dolted)

  1. (obsolete) To behave foolishly.
  2. To fool; to trick
    • Some by frequent Practice will never be dolted1674, Charles Cotton, The Compleat Gamester

dolt meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

dolt in Tamil

dolt
கழுதை kaḻutai

dolt in Urdu

dolt, idiotic, oafish
ابلہ ablā

dolt in Bengali

নির্বোধ, বোকা ব্যক্তি

dolt in Malayalam

idiot, fool, ass
ഭോഷൻ, വിഡ്ഢി, മാഴൻ, മൂഢൻ, മുഹേരൻ, ഹുണ്ഡൻ
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dolt in Kannada
ಪೆದ್ದ, ದಡ್ಡ, ಹೆಡ್ಡ
dolt in Sanskrit
मूढ mūḍha

Synonyms of dolt

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Forms of dolt

Noun
pluraldolts
Verb
third-person singular presentdolts
present participledolting
past participledolted
pastdolted

Origin of dolt

First used as a noun in Early Modern English, from dialectal English dold (“stupid, confused”), from Middle English dold, a variant of dulled, dult (“dulled”), past participle of dullen, dollen (“to make dull, make stupid”), from dull, dul, dwal (“stupid”). More at dull.

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Questions about dolt

What does dolt mean?
Dolt means a stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.
What is dolt in Tamil?
Dolt in Tamil is கழுதை (kaḻutai). See Dolt meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dolt?
Dolt can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce dolt?
Dolt is pronounced /dɒlt/ (UK).
What is the plural of dolt?
The plural of dolt is dolts.

Words near dolt in the dictionary

  1. dols
  2. Dolson
  3. Dolsons
  4. dolsot
  5. dolsots
  6. dolt
  7. dolted
  8. doltery
  9. dolthead
  10. doltheads
  11. dolthood

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dolt (page history and authors); கழுதை (Tamil) (page history and authors); ابلہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); Dolt (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dolt (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); dolt (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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