knuckleheaded
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- adjective
- /ˈnʌkəlˌhɛdɪd/
- Informal
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- His knuckleheaded decision to skip class cost him a valuable opportunity.
And thank you to this knuckleheaded heart, this Pelican heart, this gap toothed heart flinging open it's gaudy maw to the sky.
- And thank you to this knuckleheaded heart, this Pelican heart, this gap toothed heart flinging open it's gaudy maw to the sky.
- And thank you to this knuckleheaded heart, this Pelican heart, this gap tooth heart flinging open it's gaudy maw to the sky.
Examples
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There is a parallel structure of requirements to be an appointee official, and it refers to being a qualified elector only as a "residency requirement," which is a knuckleheaded thing to ignore when trying to determine what "resident" means in the context of the statute. They need to distinguish, since they did not adopt it, and instead they ignored it.
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You must stop making knuckleheaded excuses and start taking responsibility for your actions.
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Or he'd do something so absolutely knuckleheaded...
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There has been another recent raft of cases along these lines inspired by the New York Court of Appeals in some truly knuckleheaded decisions: Hotel 71 and Koehler.
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And thank you to this knuckleheaded heart, this Pelican heart, this gap tooth heart flinging open it's gaudy maw to the sky.
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And thank you to this knuckleheaded heart, this Pelican heart, this gap toothed heart flinging open it's gaudy maw to the sky.
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Every time he misses an important deadline, it's just his knuckleheaded way of handling time management.
Synonyms
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Very stupid and not thinking clearly
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Crude and showing old, simple thinking that ignores new ideas
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Being very foolish and showing poor judgment
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Not thinking carefully and often acting silly
Very foolish and acting without thinking
Acting silly and a little forgetful or confused
Very foolish and often making bad choices
Being very foolish and clumsy in how someone thinks or acts
Not able to think clearly and often doing silly things
Not serious and likely to make bad choices
Too silly and not careful about important things
Very foolish or not showing any reaction
Antonyms
How Foolish
- Offensive
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Surface Forms
Morphology
knuckleheaded = knucklehead (transparent) = knuckle + head + ed
A straightforward adjectival formation from the colloquial noun 'knucklehead' meaning 'foolish person', so the adjective means 'having the qualities of a knucklehead'.
Etymology
The word knuckleheaded comes from joining knuckle, the joint on a finger, and head, to imagine someone using their knuckles instead of their brain, a playful way to call someone 'silly' or 'foolish'.