Dunce [noun]

Definition of Dunce:

stupid person

Synonyms of Dunce:

● Ass

● Donkey

● Twit

● Blockhead

● Pinhead

● Lightweight

● Nerd

● Dolt

● Bonehead

● Oaf

● Half-wit

● Idiot

● Nitwit

● Buffoon

● Moron

● Nincompoop

● Fool

● Goof

● Jerk

● Dullard

● Dope

● Ninny

● Numskull

● Imbecile

● Drip

● Ignoramus

● Simpleton

● Dimwit

● Birdbrain

● Schnook

● Dunderhead

● Dork

● Scatterbrain

● Knucklehead

● Goof ball

● Lame-brain


Opposite/Antonyms of Dunce:

● Brain

● Genius


Sentence/Example of Dunce:

This time, Super Duper Loser Kevin Dopart suggested perhaps a dunce cap, or a jester’s hat, with the title “Clowning Achievement.”

Pedantic, unimaginative and presumptuous, Theobald was the logical choice for a Dunce King in 1728.

Tyndale himself, who invented such beautiful words in his translations, was the first to use the word dunce.

I'm afraid from this you'll guess that I must have been a dunce at school myself.

Tutors I could get by shoals, but a fellow-dunce is inestimable.'

He had no mercy on a fool or a dunce, and turned in disgust from those who loved trifles and lies.

Divination is of as many kinds as there are fruit-bearing varieties of the flowering dunce and the early fool.

The dunce paused, then stood stock still, his mouth opening to its widest extent.

In a minute Dick Arbuckle and Pumpkin were hurrying along the road the dunce had previously traveled.

And nobody calls you a dunce,And people suppose me clever; This could but have happened once,And we missed it, lost it forever.