doltish

adj

doltish

adj

Etymology From dolt + -ish.

1

Like a dolt; dull in intellect; stupid.

  • Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends' glarings is a doltish stare!1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
Derived terms
doltishly, doltishness

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