dolt

[ dohlt ]

noun

1. a dull, stupid person; blockhead.

   Synonyms: dummy, nitwit, clod, fool, idiot

dolt

/ dəʊlt /

noun

1. a slow-witted or stupid person

Derived Forms

• ˈdoltish, adjective
• ˈdoltishly, adverb
• ˈdoltishness, noun

Other Words From

• dolt·ish adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of dolt¹

First recorded in 1535–45; variant of obsolete dold “stupid,” originally past participle of Middle English dollen, dullen “to dull”; dull

Word History and Origins

Origin of dolt¹

C16: probably related to Old English dol stupid; see dull

Example Sentences

Neither is he the president whose office confers such immense power that even a dolt like Trump is automatically given more deference than he deserves.

From Salon

Marsden: I’m just sort of a dolt, a Hollywood dolt who just doesn’t understand the real-world stuff, right?

From Los Angeles Times

Previous seasons present Greg as the hapless dolt who acts as the idiot's edition of a Greek chorus.

From Salon

“I like his fearlessness, the way he just attacks everything he thinks wasn’t right, using a lot of humanist tools — killer philology, but also historical argument. And all this massive rhetoric! ‘You dolt,’ ‘You idiot’ — he did like to lay it on thick.”

From New York Times

“It’s his policies are great, but he’s a flawed messenger who lost to a geriatric dolt, when any other Republican would have won last time,” said a DeSantis ally, who like some others spoke on the condition of anonymity to share private thinking.

From Washington Post

Related Words

• clodpoll