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knuckleheaded

knuckleheaded adjective: stupid or inept, like a knucklehead.

Adjective

knuckleheaded (comparative more knuckleheaded, superlative most knuckleheaded)

  1. Stupid or inept, like a knucklehead.
    • It’s not exactly a Pixar-level examination of complicated family dynamics, and the movie still has plenty of knuckled-headed, Sandler-style boys-will-be-dumbasses shtick: Children everywhere will surely thrill to the sub-subplot about Frank catching hell about his gambling problem from his wife...2018 July 10, Jesse Hassenger, “Improbably but amusingly, Hotel Transylvania 3 notches a series best”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2018

Forms of knuckleheaded

comparativemore knuckleheaded
superlativemost knuckleheaded

Origin of knuckleheaded

From knuckle + headed.

Words formed from knuckleheaded

Questions about knuckleheaded

What does knuckleheaded mean?
Knuckleheaded means stupid or inept, like a knucklehead.
What part of speech is knuckleheaded?
Knuckleheaded is an adjective.

Words near knuckleheaded in the dictionary

  1. knuckleduster
  2. knuckledusters
  3. knucklefuck
  4. knucklefucks
  5. knucklehead
  6. knuckleheaded
  7. knuckleheadedness
  8. knuckleheadery
  9. knuckleheadish
  10. knuckleheads
  11. knucklelike

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