Usually means: Lacking intelligence; foolish or dense.
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  1. dunderhead: Merriam-Webster
  2. dunderhead: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dunderhead: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dunderhead: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dunderhead: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dunderhead, dunderhead: Wordnik
  7. dunderhead: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dunderhead: Wiktionary
  9. dunderhead: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dunderhead: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dunderhead: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dunderhead, dunderhead: Dictionary.com
  13. Dunderhead: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Dunderhead: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. dunderhead: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. dunderhead: Rhymezone
  17. Dunderhead: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. DUNDERHEAD: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  19. dunderhead: FreeDictionary.org
  20. dunderhead: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. dunderhead: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Dunderhead: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. dunderhead: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. dunderhead: Encyclopedia

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  1. Dunderhead: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dunderhead)

▸ noun:  (somewhat dated) A stupid person; a dunce.

Similar:
loggerhead, blockhead, lunkhead, knucklehead, muttonhead, dunce, bonehead, numskull, shithead, hammerhead, more...

Opposite:
genius, intelligent, brainiac

Adjectives:
old, stupid, such, worthy, formal, blessed, dear, complete, big, real, unknown

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Similar:
loggerhead, blockhead, lunkhead, knucklehead, muttonhead, dunce, bonehead, numskull, shithead, hammerhead, more...

Opposite:
genius, intelligent, brainiac

Adjectives:
old, stupid, such, worthy, formal, blessed, dear, complete, big, real, unknown



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