Word Meanings - DOLTISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown. -- Dolt"ish*ly, adv. -- Dolt"ish*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DOLTISH)

• Besotted
• Intoxicated
• steeped
• stupefied
• drunk
• drenched
• doltish
• gross
• prejudiced
• Dull
• Stupid
• stolid
• insensible
• callous
• heavy
• gloomy
• dismal
• cloudy
• turbid
• opaque
• dowdy
• sluggish
• sad
• tiresome
• commonplace
• dead
• Obtuse
• stupid
• unintelligent
• Stolid
• dull
• senseless
• mindless
• foolish
• obtuse
• besotted
• insensate
• prosy
• addlepated
• dull witted

Related words: (words related to DOLTISH)

• PREJUDICATIVE
  Forming a judgment without due examination; prejudging. Dr. H. More.
• OPAQUENESS
  The state or quality of being impervious to light; opacity. Dr. H. More.
• TURBIDITY
  Turbidness.
• BESOTTINGLY
  In a besotting manner.
• OBTUSE
  1. Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees. 2. Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; dull; stupid; as, obtuse senses. Milton. 3. Dull; deadened; as, obtuse
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• GLOOMY
  1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper
• STEEP
  Bright; glittering; fiery. His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer.
• WITTS
  Tin ore freed from earthy matter by stamping. Knight.
• INSENSIBLENESS
  Insensibility. Bp. Hall.
• PREJUDICAL
  Of or pertaining to the determination of some matter not previously decided; as, a prejudical inquiry or action at law.
• OPAQUE
  1. Impervious to the rays of light; not transparent; as, an opaque substance. 2. Obscure; not clear; unintelligible.
• BESOTTED
  Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied. "Besotted devotion." Sir W. Scott. -- Be*sot"ted*ly, adv. -- Be*sot"ted*ness, n. Milton.
• STOLIDNESS
  See STOLIDITY
• STEEPLE
  A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. -- Steeple bush , a low shrub having dense panicles
• WITTED
  Having a wit or understanding; as, a quick-witted boy.
• STEEPLY
  In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.
• DRUNKENNESS
  1. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit. The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. I.
• STEEP-DOWN
  Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. Shak.
• PREJUDICATE
  1. Formed before due examination. "Ignorance and prejudicate opinions." Jer. Taylor. 2. Biased by opinions formed prematurely; prejudiced. "Prejudicate readers." Sir T. Browne.
• DISWITTED
  Deprived of wits or understanding; distracted. Drayton.
• TWITTERING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, twitters. 2. A slight nervous excitement or agitation, such as is caused by desire, expectation, or suspense. A widow, who had a twittering towards a second husband, took a gossiping companion to manage the
• SODDEN-WITTED
  Heavy; dull. Shak.
• LEPROSY
  A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one