loggerheaded
- adjective
- /ˈlɔɡərˌhɛdɪd/
- Offensive
- Only a truly loggerheaded person would ignore warnings like that.
Examples
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She found the proposal so loggerheaded that she refused to participate.
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He's acting really loggerheaded today.
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Calling such a loggerheaded plan 'brilliant' was the height of irony.
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That was a loggerheaded decision!
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Only a truly loggerheaded person would ignore warnings like that.
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She found the proposal so loggerheaded that she refused to participate.
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Calling such a loggerheaded plan 'brilliant' was the height of irony.
Synonyms
41
8.2
Not very smart and slow to understand
8
8.0
Very stupid and not thinking clearly
4
7.9
Slow to understand simple ideas or instructions
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7.3
Very stupid and showing little thought
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9.9
Someone who is not smart and slow to understand
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8.1
Not quick to understand or learn new things
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8.3
Not able to think clearly or make good decisions
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8.8
Not very smart or sensible
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7.9
Being very foolish and showing poor judgment
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7.9
Not thinking carefully and often acting silly
Very foolish and often making bad choices
Slow to understand things and often acting foolishly
Very foolish and showing little sense
Slow to understand or learn things
Not smart and slow to understand
Being very foolish and clumsy in how someone thinks or acts
Silly and confused in the way someone thinks
Very foolish and acting without thinking
Too silly and not careful about important things
Very stupid and not able to think clearly
Antonyms
How Intelligent
Surface Forms
Morphology
loggerheaded = loggerhead (transparent) = loggerhead + ed
Formed by regular suffixation of -ed to the noun 'loggerhead' to yield an adjective meaning 'stupid', a predictable derivation.
Etymology
Loggerheaded comes from the old word loggerhead, which joins log and head to picture a head like a 'log', heavy and slow. That image makes it easy to remember that loggerheaded means 'stupid' or lacking common sense.