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or numbskull
as in idiot
a stupid person
don't be such a numskull—you know he was only kidding
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Recent Examples of numskull
Movies like Eddington and The Mastermind also render their white male protagonists as ill-prepared and ineffectual numbskulls incapable of confronting their era’s racial and social politics.
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Robert Daniels, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
That’s all fine and dandy, but watching these two numbskulls, like Pinky and the Brain with lobotomies, try to take down Tamra is not fun.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
Yes, the protagonist is a numskull.
—Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for numskull
Noun
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Overwhelmingly, though, the most common response was to seek confirmation of their suspicions that Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were morons.—
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There are worse things than watching Black, Rudd, and Zahn play three gormless morons on a mid-life misadventure, but almost every scene and setpiece is constructed with a haphazardness that blunders away their charm.—
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So, the parallel thing that I’ve been frustrated by recently is not just calling Trump stupid, but calling Trump voters stupid.—
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Sometimes too stupid is actually smartski but sometimes is just stupid stupid.—
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“Numskull.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/numskull. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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