Usually means: Lacking intelligence; slow to understand.
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  1. doltish: Merriam-Webster
  2. doltish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. doltish: Collins English Dictionary
  4. doltish: Vocabulary.com
  5. doltish: Wordnik
  6. doltish: Wiktionary
  7. Doltish, doltish: Dictionary.com
  8. Doltish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. doltish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. doltish: Rhymezone
  11. Doltish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. doltish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. doltish: FreeDictionary.org
  14. doltish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. doltish: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. doltish: Legal dictionary

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  1. doltish: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Like a dolt; dull in intellect; stupid.

Similar:
cloddish, stupid, clodpated, dull, obtuse, dotardly, dim-witted, thick-brained, dumbish, drowsy, more...

Opposite:
intelligent, clever, astute, smart, sharp

Types:
foolish, stupid, idiotic, moronic, dim-witted, dumb, simple-minded, slow, more...

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Similar:
cloddish, stupid, clodpated, dull, obtuse, dotardly, dim-witted, thick-brained, dumbish, drowsy, more...

Opposite:
intelligent, clever, astute, smart, sharp

Types:
foolish, stupid, idiotic, moronic, dim-witted, dumb, simple-minded, slow, more...



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