Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
497. Adj. unintelligent[Applied to persons], unintellectual,
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unreasoning; mindless, witless, reasoningless[obs3], brainless;
halfbaked; having no head &c. 498; not -bright &c. 498;
inapprehensible[obs3]. weak headed, addle headed, puzzle headed,
blunder headed, muddle headed, muddy headed, pig headed, beetle headed,
buffle headed[obs3], chuckle headed, mutton headed, maggoty headed,
grossheaded[obs3]; beef headed, fat witted, fat-headed. weak-minded,
feeble-minded; dull minded, shallow minded, lack-brained;
rattle-brained, rattle headed; half witted, lean witted, short witted,
dull witted, blunt-witted, shallow-pated[obs3], clod-pated[obs3],
addle- pated[obs3]; dim-sighted, short-sighted; thick-skulled; weak in
the upper story. shallow, borne, weak, wanting, soft, sappy, spoony;
dull, dull as a beetle; stupid, heavy, insulse[obs3], obtuse, blunt,
stolid, doltish; asinine; inapt &c. 699; prosaic &c. 843;
hebetudinous[obs3]. childish, child-like; infantine[obs3], infantile,
babyish, babish[obs3]; puerile, anile; simple &c. (credulous) 486;
old-womanish. fatuous, idiotic, imbecile, driveling; blatant, babbling;
vacant; sottish; bewildered &c.475. blockish[obs3], unteachable
Boeotian, Boeotic; bovine; ungifted, undiscerning[obs3], unenlightened,
unwise, unphilosophical[obs3]; apish; simious[obs3]. foolish, silly,
senseless, irrational, insensate, nonsensical, inept; maudlin.
narrow-minded &c. 481; bigoted &c. (obstinate) 606; giddy &c.
(thoughtless) 458; rash &c. 863; eccentric &c. (crazed) 503. [Applied
to actions] foolish, unwise, injudicious, improper, unreasonable,
without reason, ridiculous, absurd, idiotic, silly, stupid, asinine;
ill-imagined, ill-advised, ill-judged, ill-devised; mal entendu[Fr];
inconsistent, irrational, unphilosophical[obs3]; extravagant &c
(nonsensical) 497; sleeveless, idle; pointless, useless &c. 645;
inexpedient &c. 647; frivolous &c. (trivial) 643. Phr. Davus sum non
[Lat][Oedipus]; "a fool's bolt is soon shot" clitellae bovi sunt
impositae [obs3][Henry V.][Lat][Cicero]; "fools rush in where angels
fear to tread" [Pope]; il n' a ni bouche ni eperon [Fr]; "the bookful
blockhead, ignorantly read" [Pope]; "to varnish nonsense with the
charms of sound" [Churchill].
#500. Sage—N. sage, wise man; genius; master mind, master spirit of
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the age; longhead[obs3], thinker; intellectual, longhair.
authority, oracle, luminary, shining light, esprit fort, magnus
Apollo[Lat][obs3], Solon, Solomon, Nestor, Magi, "second Daniel."
man of learning &c. 492; expert &c. 700; wizard &c. 994.
[Ironically] wiseacre, bigwig, know-it-all; poor man's Einstein.
Adj. venerable, reverenced, emeritus.
Phr. barba tenus sapientes[Lat].
#501. Fool.—N. fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton,
witling[obs3], dizzard[obs3], donkey, ass; ninny, ninnyhammer[obs3];
chowderhead[obs3], chucklehead[obs3]; dolt, booby, Tom Noddy,
looby[obs3], hoddy-doddy[obs3], noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy[obs3], owl;
goose, goosecap[obs3]; imbecile; gaby[obs3]; radoteur[obs3],
nincompoop, badaud[obs3], zany; trifler, babbler; pretty fellow;
natural, niais[obs3]. child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop. oaf,
lout, loon, lown[obs3], dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block,
put, stick, stock, numps[obs3], tony. bull head, dunderhead,
addlehead[obs3], blockhead, dullhead[obs3], loggerhead, jolthead[obs3],
jolterhead[obs3], beetlehead[obs3], beetlebrain, grosshead[obs3],
muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead[obs3]; numbskull, thickskull[obs3];
lackbrain[obs3], shallowbrain[obs3]; dimwit, halfwit, lackwit[obs3];
dunderpate[obs3]; lunkhead sawney[obs3][U.S.], gowk[obs3]; clod,
clod-hopper; clod-poll, clot- poll, clot-pate; bull calf; gawk,
Gothamite, lummox, rube [U.S.]; men of Boeotia, wise men of Gotham. un
sot a triple etage[Fr], sot; jobbernowl[obs3], changeling, mooncalf,
gobemouche[obs3]. dotard, driveler; old fogey, old woman, crock; crone,
grandmother; cotquean[obs3], henhussy[obs3]. incompetent (insanity)
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