nice-but-dim
- adjective
- Offensive
- Everyone found him nice-but-dim, always eager to help but rarely getting things right.
Examples
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She played the classic nice-but-dim character in the sitcom, making the audience laugh with her well-meaning mistakes.
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She is nice-but-dim when it comes to math.
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My nice-but-dim brother volunteered again, even though he never remembers the instructions.
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He's a bit nice-but-dim.
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Everyone found him nice-but-dim, always eager to help but often misunderstanding the simplest tasks.
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My nice-but-dim brother is friendly to everyone, but he struggles to solve basic problems.
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In the movie, the nice-but-dim character brought joy to others, despite making silly mistakes.
Synonyms
138
8.1
Not smart or quick to understand
28
6.5
Slow to understand and not quick to learn
16
7.1
Not very intelligent and too naive about complex things
6
5.3
Not very smart and slow to understand things
1
9.9
Someone who is not smart and slow to understand
1
9.9
Slow to understand things and often acting foolishly
A person who is slow to understand and easily fooled
Slow to understand or act because they are tired
Showing little intelligence and only simple ideas
Not very quick to understand things
A person who is not smart and is slow to understand things
Antonyms
How Intelligent
949
3.7
- US
81
2.7
573
1.7
∞
1.0
- Offensive
- Offensive
28
6.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nice-but-dim breaks into nice meaning 'pleasant' and dim meaning 'not bright'. So it describes someone who is friendly and kind but not very clever.