Definitions
a person who evokes boredom
Word origin
From Middle English dullard, dollard, equivalent to dull + -ard (pejorative agent suffix). Compare Faroese døll (“dullard, good-for-nothing, blockhead”), Norwegian Nynorsk døl (“idiot, simpleton”).
Used in a sentence
“Oh! Richard of Bury, I sighed, for a sharp stone from your sling to pierce with indignant sarcasm the mental armour of these college dullards.”
“Whereas some prodigies develop at an early age, Einstein did not exhibit any great genius as a young child. Some people thought he was a dullard.”
“Marion has long since stopped listening. "You dullard," she says now she can finally speak, "I'm your chief of Antimemetics."”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Slow-witted person”7 letters
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