duncish
- adjective
- /ˈdʌn.kɪʃ/
- Offensive
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tonto
- The team's duncish mistakes cost them the game.
Examples
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His duncish response made the whole class laugh.
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His duncish remarks during the meeting surprised everyone.
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Calling someone duncish isn't exactly polite, you know.
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Don't be so duncish! Think before you speak.
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The teacher thought his answers were duncish because he didn't understand the questions.
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After the group project, she couldn't help but feel her teammates were a bit duncish about the instructions.
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He always seemed duncish in class, struggling to grasp even the simplest concepts.
Synonyms
945
3.2
Not able to understand or learn things quickly
138
8.1
Not smart or quick to understand
41
8.2
Not very smart and slow to understand
28
6.5
Slow to understand and not quick to learn
14
7.4
Slow to understand what other people mean
8
8.0
Very stupid and not thinking clearly
6
5.6
Not quick to understand or learn
6
5.3
Not very smart and slow to understand things
4
7.9
Slow to understand simple ideas or instructions
3
6.7
Not quick to understand or think
1
9.3
Not very smart and acting in a foolish way
1
8.1
Not quick to understand or learn new things
1
8.3
Not able to think clearly or make good decisions
1
7.9
Being very foolish and showing poor judgment
1
8.8
Not very smart or sensible
1
9.9
Being silly and not thinking clearly
Very foolish and showing little sense
Slow to understand or learn things
Showing very little intelligence or common sense
Silly and confused in the way someone thinks
Very foolish or not showing any reaction
Very stupid and not able to think clearly
Antonyms
How Stupid
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word duncish comes from dunce (a word for a slow learner) plus the ending -ish, which means 'like' or 'somewhat'. A helpful way to remember it is that dunce was once the name of a scholar that later became an insult, so duncish means 'a bit like a dunce', stupid or slow to understand.