Usually means: Foolish person lacking sense, judgment.
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  1. nincompoop: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nincompoop: Merriam-Webster
  3. nincompoop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nincompoop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nincompoop: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nincompoop: Vocabulary.com
  7. nincompoop: Wordnik
  8. nincompoop: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. nincompoop: Wiktionary
  10. nincompoop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. nincompoop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. nincompoop: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Nincompoop, nincompoop: Dictionary.com
  14. nincompoop: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. nincompoop: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Nincompoop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Nincompoop: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. nincompoop: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. nincompoop: Rhymezone
  20. Nincompoop: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. nincompoop: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Nincompoop: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. nincompoop: FreeDictionary.org
  24. nincompoop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Nincompoop: The Word Detective
  26. nincompoop: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. Nincompoop: World Wide Words
  28. nincompoop: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. nincompoop: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nincompoop: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nincompoop: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See nincompoopery as well.)

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noun:  (derogatory) A foolish or silly person.

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