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dullard

Syllables: dul·lard/ˈdʌləd/US/ˈdʌlɚd/

dullard noun: a stupid person; a fool.

Noun

dullard (plural dullards)

  1. A stupid person; a fool.
    • Oh! Richard of Bury, I sighed, for a sharp stone from your sling to pierce with indignant sarcasm the mental armour of these college dullards.1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 41
    • Whereas some prodigies develop at an early age, Einstein did not exhibit any great genius as a young child. Some people thought he was a dullard.1995, Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life with Autism, Vintage Books, published 2006, page 211

Proper noun capitalized: Dullard

Dullard (plural Dullards)

  1. A surname.

dullard meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

dullard in Tamil

மசயன், தத்தி, பேக்கு, மடையன், முட்டாள்

dullard in Malayalam

fool, idiot, stupid person
മന്ദൻ, മന്തൻ, മന്ദചേതസ്സ്, വഠരൻ, മന്ദബുദ്ധി, ജളമതി

dullard in Kannada

ಹೆಡ್ಡ, ಮದಡ, ಕಡುಗಾಂಪು

Examples of dullard in a sentence

  • "You dullard," she says now she can finally speak, "I'm your chief of Antimemetics."2008–2021, qntm, “We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 9:
  • What if we send him to a very selective private school so he doesn't have to worry about rubbing shoulders with street tramps and dullards?” “No.2022 August 9, Ayo Edebiri & Shana Gohd, “Private School” (3:30 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 4, episode 5, spoken...

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Forms of dullard

Noun
pluraldullards
Proper noun
pluralDullards

Origin of dullard

From Middle English dullard, dollard, equivalent to dull + -ard (pejorative agent suffix). Compare Faroese døll (“dullard, good-for-nothing, blockhead”), Norwegian Nynorsk døl (“idiot, simpleton”).

Variant of Dollard.

Words formed from dullard

Questions about dullard

What does dullard mean?
Dullard means a stupid person; a fool.
What is dullard in Tamil?
Dullard in Tamil is மசயன், தத்தி, பேக்கு. See Dullard meaning in Tamil.
How do you use dullard in a sentence?
"You dullard," she says now she can finally speak, "I'm your chief of Antimemetics."
What part of speech is dullard?
Dullard can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce dullard?
Dullard is pronounced /ˈdʌlɚd/ (US).
What is the plural of dullard?
The plural of dullard is dullards.

Words near dullard in the dictionary

  1. dullaghan
  2. dullaghans
  3. dullahan
  4. dullahans
  5. Dullao
  6. dullard
  7. dullardism
  8. dullardly
  9. dullardness
  10. dullardry
  11. dullards

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