English to Irish Meaning of dunce - dunce

Dunce :

dunce

noun

eile clumsy, fear dull-witted

Dunce :: dunceDunces :: Dunces

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Definitions of dunce in English

Noun(1) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence

Examples of dunce in English

(1) The prose is clear enough that a math dunce like me can grasp it, and the superhero examples are enough, I think, to interest even someone who already knows physics.(2) ├ö├ç├┐I was branded a dunce , without question,├ö├ç├û he says.(3) And I think I can say, with all fairness, that the management thinks I'm an air-headed dunce .(4) Whatever grand claims spin-doctors make of their fabled and bewitching powers, they can no more teach a dunce to run the Department for Education than make a marquee the most exciting destination of the new millennium.(5) Or, put another way, the elections were a success and a great moral victory; but the ideas that led up to them were the purest examples of bone-headed bungling; and the man who thought them all up was a dunce .(6) he was baffled by arithmetic and they called him a dunce at school(7) Plus, I'm a total dunce - I didn't even realise that ├ö├ç├┐surprise party├ö├ç├û noise was a cock-up.(8) I know for a fact that I sound like a complete dunce when I leave my number, which takes twice as long as it should because I fail to plan ahead and have to wrack my brain for the Spanish translation of every digit.(9) In his early days, even the Master of Crime was a dunce .(10) I'm such a dunce walking into a stupid place like this but its not like they could identify me.(11) For every liberal dunce, there is a conservative dunce .(12) As a reward, best-performing authorities will get greater financial freedom while the dunces face the threat of external intervention to sort them out.(13) But depression returned when we kept thinking it was dominated by ignorant dunces .(14) If the Night Agency is willing to employ such airheads at their office, what kind of dunces do you think they'd employ for your client?(15) The advertiser also takes us to be such dunces in whose heads he has to ram his message again and again.(16) Far from being instinct-driven dunces held back by a three-second memory, fish were cunning, manipulative, cultured and socially aware.

Related Phrases of dunce

(1) dunce cap ::

caipín dunce

Related Phrases of dunce

(1) dunce cap ::

caipín dunce

Synonyms

Noun

1. fool ::

amadán

2. idiot ::

leathcheann

3. stupid person ::

duine dúr

4. simpleton ::

Simpleton

5. ignoramus ::

ignoramus

6. dullard ::

dullard

7. dummy ::

chaocha

8. dumbo ::

Dumbo

9. thickhead ::

thickhead

10. nitwit ::

nitwit

11. dimwit ::

dimwit

13. moron ::

amadán

14. cretin ::

Cretin

15. imbecile ::

imbecile

17. dope ::

dope

18. boob ::

boob

19. chump ::

chump

20. hoser ::

hoser

21. numbskull ::

numbskull

23. nincompoop ::

nincompoop

24. mouth-breather ::

béal-breather

25. fathead ::

fathead

26. airhead ::

airhead

27. butthead ::

Butthead

28. birdbrain ::

birdbrain

29. scissorbill ::

scissorbill

31. ninny ::

ninny

32. ass ::

asal

33. doofus ::

doofus

34. goof ::

goof

35. meatball ::

leithroidfeoile

36. schmuck ::

schmuck

37. bozo ::

Bozo

38. lummox ::

lummox

39. knuckle-dragger ::

knuckle-dragger

Antonyms

1. brain ::

inchinn

2. genius ::

genius

Different Forms

dunce, dunces

Word Example from TV Shows

These guys usually get a DUNCE to pull the trigger, right?

Breaking Bad Season 4, Episode 8

Examples of dunce from TV Shows

These guys usually get a DUNCE to pull the trigger, right?

Breaking Bad Season 4, Episode 8

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