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doltish

doltish adjective: like a dolt; dull in intellect; stupid.

Adjective

doltish (comparative more doltish, superlative most doltish)

  1. Like a dolt; dull in intellect; stupid.
    • Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends' glarings is a doltish stare!1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

doltish meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

doltish in Bengali

নির্বোধের মতো, বুদ্ধিহীন, বোকা

doltish in Malayalam

stupid, ignorant, dense
മൂഢനായ, വിഡ്ഢിയായ, മന്ദബുദ്ധിയായ, നിർബ്ബുദ്ധി, ബുദ്ധിയില്ലാത്ത, വിതാന

Forms of doltish

comparativemore doltish
superlativemost doltish

Origin of doltish

From dolt + -ish.

Words formed from doltish

Questions about doltish

What does doltish mean?
Doltish means like a dolt; dull in intellect; stupid.
What is doltish in Bengali?
Doltish in Bengali is নির্বোধের মতো, বুদ্ধিহীন, বোকা. See Doltish meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is doltish?
Doltish is an adjective.

Words near doltish in the dictionary

  1. doltery
  2. dolthead
  3. doltheads
  4. dolthood
  5. dolting
  6. doltish
  7. doltishly
  8. doltishness
  9. Dolton
  10. dolts
  11. dolus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doltish (page history and authors); doltish (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); doltish (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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