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1 bobo
• brainless• dolt• doltish• dupe• feather-brained• fool• foolish• gawk• nailpolish enamel• naive mistake• ninety-day savings account• ninth• silly• Simple Simon• softhead• softheaded• sucker• tomfool -
2 insensato
• brainless• light-headed• nonsectarian• nonsensically• sense perception• senseless act -
3 memo
• brainless• fool• simpleton -
4 sin cabeza
• brainless• headland• headlight• irreflexive• mindless• unreflective -
5 memo
adj.silly, stupid, brainless.m.1 memo, written note, memorandum.2 fool, dunce, simpleton, dweeb.* * *► adjetivo1 familiar stupid, dim► nombre masculino,nombre femenino1 familiar dummy, moron* * *I memo, -a *1.ADJ silly, stupid2.SM / F idiotII* SM memo *, memorandum* * *I- ma adjetivo (Esp fam) stupid, dumb (colloq)IIno seas memo — don't be so stupid o dumb
- ma masculino, femenino1) (Esp fam) idiot, peabrain (colloq)2) memo masculino ( memorándum) memo* * *= goofy [goofier -comp., goofiest -sup.], dullard, dimwit, dim-witted [dimwitted], brainless, twat, witless, dumbbell, dull-witted, asinine, nonce, gaga, dweeb.Ex. The article 'Book pricing: economics of a goofy business' examines briefly the economics of the book publishing process from the viewpoint of the book wholesaler.Ex. The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to bad end.Ex. The diplomats have been calling him a lucky dimwit ever since.Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex. I don't really care if he does like real ale, even if his arse was hung with diamonds he would still be a twat.Ex. She refutes the idea of the women's magazine as a 'mouthpiece of masculine interest, of patriarchy and commercialism' that preyed on 'passive, dependent, and witless' women readers.Ex. The Wizard, played by Joel Grey, is a smooth-talking dumbbell who admits he is 'a corn-fed hick' and 'one of your dime-a-dozen mediocrities'.Ex. This chapter is dedicated to the truly asinine rules -- ones which either defeat their own purpose altogether or are completely devoid of common sense.Ex. Justin, whilst clearly a nonce, is to be commended on instigating a high-profile campaign to free the hostages.Ex. So if Ellen and Baltar are anything to go by, it seems exceptionally smart people are a bit gaga.Ex. For this reason, I will probably not vote in the London mayoral election at all and this doesn't make me a whinging negativist dweeb.* * *I- ma adjetivo (Esp fam) stupid, dumb (colloq)IIno seas memo — don't be so stupid o dumb
- ma masculino, femenino1) (Esp fam) idiot, peabrain (colloq)2) memo masculino ( memorándum) memo* * *= goofy [goofier -comp., goofiest -sup.], dullard, dimwit, dim-witted [dimwitted], brainless, twat, witless, dumbbell, dull-witted, asinine, nonce, gaga, dweeb.Ex: The article 'Book pricing: economics of a goofy business' examines briefly the economics of the book publishing process from the viewpoint of the book wholesaler.
Ex: The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to bad end.Ex: The diplomats have been calling him a lucky dimwit ever since.Ex: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex: I don't really care if he does like real ale, even if his arse was hung with diamonds he would still be a twat.Ex: She refutes the idea of the women's magazine as a 'mouthpiece of masculine interest, of patriarchy and commercialism' that preyed on 'passive, dependent, and witless' women readers.Ex: The Wizard, played by Joel Grey, is a smooth-talking dumbbell who admits he is 'a corn-fed hick' and 'one of your dime-a-dozen mediocrities'.Ex: An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.Ex: This chapter is dedicated to the truly asinine rules -- ones which either defeat their own purpose altogether or are completely devoid of common sense.Ex: Justin, whilst clearly a nonce, is to be commended on instigating a high-profile campaign to free the hostages.Ex: So if Ellen and Baltar are anything to go by, it seems exceptionally smart people are a bit gaga.Ex: For this reason, I will probably not vote in the London mayoral election at all and this doesn't make me a whinging negativist dweeb.* * *no seas memo don't be so stupid o dumb¡no te quedes ahí mirando como si estuvieras mema! don't just stand there like an idiot!masculine, feminineB* * *
memo,-a insult
I adjetivo silly, stupid
II sustantivo masculino y femenino idiot
' memo' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
boluda
- boludo
- mema
- circular
- memorándum
English:
memo
- nitwit
- soft-headed
- goofy
* * *memo, -a Esp♦ adjstupid♦ nm,fidiot, fool* * *famI adj dumb famII m, mema f idiot* * *memo, -ma adj: silly, stupid* * *memo2 n idiot -
6 estúpido
adj.1 stupid, foolish, dumb, empty-headed.2 stupid, foolish, inane, dumb.m.stupid, nitwit, fathead, numbskull.* * *► adjetivo1 stupid, silly► nombre masculino,nombre femenino1 berk, idiot* * *1. (f. - estúpida)adj.2. (f. - estúpida)noun f.* * *estúpido, -a1.ADJ stupid2.SM / F idiot* * *I- da adjetivo <persona/argumento> stupid, sillyIIay, qué estúpida soy! — oh, how stupid of me!
- da masculino, femenino idiot, fool* * *= crazy [crazier -comp., craziest -sup.], dummy, foolish, silly, mindless, moron, stupid, daft [dafter -comp., daftest -sup.], mad, dumb [dumber -comp., dumbest -sup.], nuts, witless, bonehead, boneheaded, twit, dolally tap, dolally [do-lally], imbecile, cretinous, arsehole [asshole, -USA], brainless, dimwit, dim-witted [dimwitted], twat, nonsensical, mug, berk, prick, cretin, dumbbell, dull-witted, asinine, lemon, ditsy [ditsier -comp., ditsiest -sup.], dits, ditz, ditzy [ditzier -comp., ditziest -sup.], airhead, airheaded, duffer, schmuck, schmo, nonce, moke, twerp, dweeb, chump, birdbrained, birdbrain, off + Posesivo + knocker, off + Posesivo + rocker, dork, moonstruck, plonker.Ex. Lest it appear that Ms Marshall's committee and a few others of us, notoriously associated with that kind of work, are little more than crazy, fire-breathing radicals, let me add this gloss immediately.Ex. We are too prone to be dummy people by day, and thinking, articulate individuals only in the safety of home and leisure.Ex. It would be uneconomic and foolish to persevere with human assignment of controlled-language terms.Ex. In conclusion, I am sure you all believe me to be either idealistic, unrealistic, radical, or just plain silly.Ex. By this later period pressmen in England were despised as mere 'horses', the 'great guzzlers of beer' who were rebuked by the young Benjamin Franklin for their mindless intemperance.Ex. This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from Feeble minded, Imbecility, and morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.Ex. When any librarian is trying to find material on behalf of a user from a poor citation it leads to that librarian appearing slow and stupid to the user.Ex. Ranking among the dafter exercises sometimes imposed on children is the one that requires them to describe a screwdriver or a vase or the desks they sit at, or any familiar object.Ex. When J D Brown allowed the public of Islington to have open access to the books in the 1890s he was regarded by many of his colleagues as mad!.Ex. Techniques such as the automatic detection of anaphora enable systems to appear to be intelligent rather than dumb.Ex. I think some people would think my approach is nuts.Ex. She refutes the idea of the women's magazine as a 'mouthpiece of masculine interest, of patriarchy and commercialism' that preyed on 'passive, dependent, and witless' women readers.Ex. The article is entitled 'Field Research for Boneheads: From Naivete to Insight on the Green Tortoise'.Ex. That was a big boneheaded error.Ex. Democracy's a nice idea in theory, if it wasn't for all the twits.Ex. Now I know this country of ours is totally dolally tap!.Ex. The server has gone dolally by the looks of it.Ex. The same evil is done in slaving, tormenting and killing, say, chimpanzees as is done in so injuring human imbeciles.Ex. It is already evident that he is a cretinous buffoon.Ex. Modern preppies try to be assholes, probably because they think it's cool, and never quite make it.Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex. The diplomats have been calling him a lucky dimwit ever since.Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex. I don't really care if he does like real ale, even if his arse was hung with diamonds he would still be a twat.Ex. Parental protectiveness of children is surely a good thing if sensibly applied, but this nonsensical double standard doesn't help anyone.Ex. By this time, firecrackers and fireworks were being let off willy-nilly in the streets by any mug with a match.Ex. And before some berk starts whittling on about anti-car lobbies, we should all be lobbying for less car use if we've got any interest whatsoever in the future.Ex. Steve knows that he is a 'showboat, a little bit of a prick,' but he also knows that it's too late for a man in his fifties to change.Ex. Cretin is a word derived from an 18th century Swiss-French word meaning Christian.Ex. The Wizard, played by Joel Grey, is a smooth-talking dumbbell who admits he is 'a corn-fed hick' and 'one of your dime-a-dozen mediocrities'.Ex. This chapter is dedicated to the truly asinine rules -- ones which either defeat their own purpose altogether or are completely devoid of common sense.Ex. The court also heard the victim's brother accuse the defendant of physical abuse and of calling him a ' lemon and a retard'.Ex. If there is a stereo type for ditsy blondes she really has gone out of her way to fit it perfectly.Ex. But then again, there are thousands of such ditses out there that need mental help.Ex. She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.Ex. She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.Ex. Some people like airheads with fake boobs.Ex. She's just an airheaded bimbo, with an endless capacity to push aside unpleasant realities in favor of her more satisfying interests: young men and jewels.Ex. Plus, no matter what she did to stop people from picking on her she always ended up being called a duffer.Ex. Schmuck entered English as a borrowed word from Yiddish, where it is an obscene term literally meaning a foreskin or head of a penis, and an insult.Ex. This team of schmoes is capable of anything.Ex. Justin, whilst clearly a nonce, is to be commended on instigating a high-profile campaign to free the hostages.Ex. States know better what their own citizens needs are than do the mokes in Washington.Ex. He started life as a twerp, then fairly quickly became a jerk and ended up an old sourpuss.Ex. For this reason, I will probably not vote in the London mayoral election at all and this doesn't make me a whinging negativist dweeb.Ex. Americans are such chumps, because we refuse to see what is going on right in front of our eyes.Ex. She has her own birdbrained way of thinking about things, but most of what she says is vaguely prophetic.Ex. I am thinking humans can be such birdbrains when it comes to communication.Ex. Every firearm hast its pros and cons and anyone who tells you otherwise is off their knocker.Ex. I find it fascinating how Bradley can be perfectly reasonable one moment, and off his rocker the next.Ex. And then we get nongs like Joe here who just cant help himself from being a dork.Ex. ' Moonstruck' has all the fun of movies about weddings: a reluctant groom, an overeager bride, and an emotionally distraught family.Ex. If she'd been my daughter in fact I'd never have let her go out with an obvious plonker like myself.----* algo estúpido = no-brainer.* como un estúpido = stupidly.* hacerse el estúpido = dumb down, act + dumb.* lo suficientemente estúpido como para = dumb enough to.* rubia estúpida = dumb blonde.* ser estúpido = be off + Posesivo + rocker.* típica rubia estúpida = bimbo.* volverse estúpido = go off + Posesivo + rocker.* * *I- da adjetivo <persona/argumento> stupid, sillyIIay, qué estúpida soy! — oh, how stupid of me!
- da masculino, femenino idiot, fool* * *= crazy [crazier -comp., craziest -sup.], dummy, foolish, silly, mindless, moron, stupid, daft [dafter -comp., daftest -sup.], mad, dumb [dumber -comp., dumbest -sup.], nuts, witless, bonehead, boneheaded, twit, dolally tap, dolally [do-lally], imbecile, cretinous, arsehole [asshole, -USA], brainless, dimwit, dim-witted [dimwitted], twat, nonsensical, mug, berk, prick, cretin, dumbbell, dull-witted, asinine, lemon, ditsy [ditsier -comp., ditsiest -sup.], dits, ditz, ditzy [ditzier -comp., ditziest -sup.], airhead, airheaded, duffer, schmuck, schmo, nonce, moke, twerp, dweeb, chump, birdbrained, birdbrain, off + Posesivo + knocker, off + Posesivo + rocker, dork, moonstruck, plonker.Ex: Lest it appear that Ms Marshall's committee and a few others of us, notoriously associated with that kind of work, are little more than crazy, fire-breathing radicals, let me add this gloss immediately.
Ex: We are too prone to be dummy people by day, and thinking, articulate individuals only in the safety of home and leisure.Ex: It would be uneconomic and foolish to persevere with human assignment of controlled-language terms.Ex: In conclusion, I am sure you all believe me to be either idealistic, unrealistic, radical, or just plain silly.Ex: By this later period pressmen in England were despised as mere 'horses', the 'great guzzlers of beer' who were rebuked by the young Benjamin Franklin for their mindless intemperance.Ex: This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from Feeble minded, Imbecility, and morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.Ex: When any librarian is trying to find material on behalf of a user from a poor citation it leads to that librarian appearing slow and stupid to the user.Ex: Ranking among the dafter exercises sometimes imposed on children is the one that requires them to describe a screwdriver or a vase or the desks they sit at, or any familiar object.Ex: When J D Brown allowed the public of Islington to have open access to the books in the 1890s he was regarded by many of his colleagues as mad!.Ex: Techniques such as the automatic detection of anaphora enable systems to appear to be intelligent rather than dumb.Ex: I think some people would think my approach is nuts.Ex: She refutes the idea of the women's magazine as a 'mouthpiece of masculine interest, of patriarchy and commercialism' that preyed on 'passive, dependent, and witless' women readers.Ex: The article is entitled 'Field Research for Boneheads: From Naivete to Insight on the Green Tortoise'.Ex: That was a big boneheaded error.Ex: Democracy's a nice idea in theory, if it wasn't for all the twits.Ex: Now I know this country of ours is totally dolally tap!.Ex: The server has gone dolally by the looks of it.Ex: The same evil is done in slaving, tormenting and killing, say, chimpanzees as is done in so injuring human imbeciles.Ex: It is already evident that he is a cretinous buffoon.Ex: Modern preppies try to be assholes, probably because they think it's cool, and never quite make it.Ex: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex: The diplomats have been calling him a lucky dimwit ever since.Ex: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex: I don't really care if he does like real ale, even if his arse was hung with diamonds he would still be a twat.Ex: Parental protectiveness of children is surely a good thing if sensibly applied, but this nonsensical double standard doesn't help anyone.Ex: By this time, firecrackers and fireworks were being let off willy-nilly in the streets by any mug with a match.Ex: And before some berk starts whittling on about anti-car lobbies, we should all be lobbying for less car use if we've got any interest whatsoever in the future.Ex: Steve knows that he is a 'showboat, a little bit of a prick,' but he also knows that it's too late for a man in his fifties to change.Ex: Cretin is a word derived from an 18th century Swiss-French word meaning Christian.Ex: The Wizard, played by Joel Grey, is a smooth-talking dumbbell who admits he is 'a corn-fed hick' and 'one of your dime-a-dozen mediocrities'.Ex: An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.Ex: This chapter is dedicated to the truly asinine rules -- ones which either defeat their own purpose altogether or are completely devoid of common sense.Ex: The court also heard the victim's brother accuse the defendant of physical abuse and of calling him a ' lemon and a retard'.Ex: If there is a stereo type for ditsy blondes she really has gone out of her way to fit it perfectly.Ex: But then again, there are thousands of such ditses out there that need mental help.Ex: She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.Ex: She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.Ex: Some people like airheads with fake boobs.Ex: She's just an airheaded bimbo, with an endless capacity to push aside unpleasant realities in favor of her more satisfying interests: young men and jewels.Ex: Plus, no matter what she did to stop people from picking on her she always ended up being called a duffer.Ex: Schmuck entered English as a borrowed word from Yiddish, where it is an obscene term literally meaning a foreskin or head of a penis, and an insult.Ex: This team of schmoes is capable of anything.Ex: Justin, whilst clearly a nonce, is to be commended on instigating a high-profile campaign to free the hostages.Ex: States know better what their own citizens needs are than do the mokes in Washington.Ex: He started life as a twerp, then fairly quickly became a jerk and ended up an old sourpuss.Ex: For this reason, I will probably not vote in the London mayoral election at all and this doesn't make me a whinging negativist dweeb.Ex: Americans are such chumps, because we refuse to see what is going on right in front of our eyes.Ex: She has her own birdbrained way of thinking about things, but most of what she says is vaguely prophetic.Ex: I am thinking humans can be such birdbrains when it comes to communication.Ex: Every firearm hast its pros and cons and anyone who tells you otherwise is off their knocker.Ex: I find it fascinating how Bradley can be perfectly reasonable one moment, and off his rocker the next.Ex: And then we get nongs like Joe here who just cant help himself from being a dork.Ex: ' Moonstruck' has all the fun of movies about weddings: a reluctant groom, an overeager bride, and an emotionally distraught family.Ex: If she'd been my daughter in fact I'd never have let her go out with an obvious plonker like myself.* algo estúpido = no-brainer.* como un estúpido = stupidly.* hacerse el estúpido = dumb down, act + dumb.* lo suficientemente estúpido como para = dumb enough to.* rubia estúpida = dumb blonde.* ser estúpido = be off + Posesivo + rocker.* típica rubia estúpida = bimbo.* volverse estúpido = go off + Posesivo + rocker.* * *‹persona› stupid; ‹argumento› stupid, sillyay, qué estúpida, me equivoqué oh, how stupid of me, I've done it wrongun gasto estúpido a stupid waste of moneyes estúpido que vayamos las dos it's silly o stupid for us both to gomasculine, feminineidiot, foolel estúpido de mi hermano my stupid brother* * *
estúpido
‹ argumento› stupid, silly;◊ ¡ay, qué estúpida soy! oh, how stupid of me!
■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
idiot, fool
estúpido,-a
I adjetivo stupid
II sustantivo masculino y femenino idiot
' estúpido' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
burra
- burro
- estúpida
- animal
- apendejarse
- baboso
- caballo
- el
- embromar
- gafo
- huevón
- pendejo
English:
also
- believe
- bit
- bonehead
- bozo
- damn
- dopey
- equally
- foolish
- goof
- idiotic
- mindless
- obtuse
- pretty
- shame
- soft
- stupid
- that
- wonder
- inane
- jerk
* * *estúpido, -a♦ adjstupid;¡qué estúpido soy! me he vuelto a olvidar what an idiot I am! I've gone and forgotten again;sería estúpido no reconocerlo it would be foolish not to admit it♦ nm,fidiot;el estúpido de mi vecino my idiot of a neighbour* * *I adj stupidII m, estúpida f idiot* * *estúpido, -da adj: stupid♦ estúpidamente adjestúpido, -da nidiota: idiot, fool* * *estúpido2 n stupid person / idiot -
7 idiota
adj.1 stupid (tonto).2 mentally deficient (enfermo).3 idiot, foolish, dumb, silly.4 ament.f. & m.idiot.* * *► adjetivo1 MEDICINA idiotic1 idiot\* * *1. noun mf. 2. adj.stupid, idiotic* * *1.ADJ idiotic, stupid2.SMF idiot¡idiota! — you idiot!
* * *Ia) (fam) ( tonto) stupid, idioticb) (Med) idioticII* * *= idiot, fool, cretinous, arsehole [asshole, -USA], dimwit, dim-witted [dimwitted], brainless, twat, arse, mug, berk, prick, moron, cretin, dumbbell, asinine, lemon, airhead, airheaded, bonehead, duffer, drongo, schmuck, schmo, nonce, moke, twerp, dweeb, chump, birdbrained, birdbrain, dork, plonker.Ex. Dykstra, M., 'PRECIS: a primer', published in 1985, offers the long-awaited ' idiot's guide' to PRECIS indexing.Ex. A chapter each is devoted to the comic hero, comedian, humorist, rogue, trickster, clown, fool, underdog, and simpleton.Ex. It is already evident that he is a cretinous buffoon.Ex. Modern preppies try to be assholes, probably because they think it's cool, and never quite make it.Ex. The diplomats have been calling him a lucky dimwit ever since.Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex. I don't really care if he does like real ale, even if his arse was hung with diamonds he would still be a twat.Ex. In fact, there was little doubt in his mind that Nigel was an arse of the highest order.Ex. By this time, firecrackers and fireworks were being let off willy-nilly in the streets by any mug with a match.Ex. And before some berk starts whittling on about anti-car lobbies, we should all be lobbying for less car use if we've got any interest whatsoever in the future.Ex. Steve knows that he is a 'showboat, a little bit of a prick,' but he also knows that it's too late for a man in his fifties to change.Ex. This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from Feeble minded, Imbecility, and morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.Ex. Cretin is a word derived from an 18th century Swiss-French word meaning Christian.Ex. The Wizard, played by Joel Grey, is a smooth-talking dumbbell who admits he is 'a corn-fed hick' and 'one of your dime-a-dozen mediocrities'.Ex. This chapter is dedicated to the truly asinine rules -- ones which either defeat their own purpose altogether or are completely devoid of common sense.Ex. The court also heard the victim's brother accuse the defendant of physical abuse and of calling him a ' lemon and a retard'.Ex. Some people like airheads with fake boobs.Ex. She's just an airheaded bimbo, with an endless capacity to push aside unpleasant realities in favor of her more satisfying interests: young men and jewels.Ex. The article is entitled 'Field Research for Boneheads: From Naivete to Insight on the Green Tortoise'.Ex. Plus, no matter what she did to stop people from picking on her she always ended up being called a duffer.Ex. Now I know to you inteligent types this sounds a simple problem but to a drongo like me it is like quantum physics!!!.Ex. Schmuck entered English as a borrowed word from Yiddish, where it is an obscene term literally meaning a foreskin or head of a penis, and an insult.Ex. This team of schmoes is capable of anything.Ex. Justin, whilst clearly a nonce, is to be commended on instigating a high-profile campaign to free the hostages.Ex. States know better what their own citizens needs are than do the mokes in Washington.Ex. He started life as a twerp, then fairly quickly became a jerk and ended up an old sourpuss.Ex. For this reason, I will probably not vote in the London mayoral election at all and this doesn't make me a whinging negativist dweeb.Ex. Americans are such chumps, because we refuse to see what is going on right in front of our eyes.Ex. She has her own birdbrained way of thinking about things, but most of what she says is vaguely prophetic.Ex. I am thinking humans can be such birdbrains when it comes to communication.Ex. And then we get nongs like Joe here who just cant help himself from being a dork.Ex. If she'd been my daughter in fact I'd never have let her go out with an obvious plonker like myself.----* como un idiota = stupidly.* idiota genio = idiot savant.* * *Ia) (fam) ( tonto) stupid, idioticb) (Med) idioticII* * *= idiot, fool, cretinous, arsehole [asshole, -USA], dimwit, dim-witted [dimwitted], brainless, twat, arse, mug, berk, prick, moron, cretin, dumbbell, asinine, lemon, airhead, airheaded, bonehead, duffer, drongo, schmuck, schmo, nonce, moke, twerp, dweeb, chump, birdbrained, birdbrain, dork, plonker.Ex: Dykstra, M., 'PRECIS: a primer', published in 1985, offers the long-awaited ' idiot's guide' to PRECIS indexing.
Ex: A chapter each is devoted to the comic hero, comedian, humorist, rogue, trickster, clown, fool, underdog, and simpleton.Ex: It is already evident that he is a cretinous buffoon.Ex: Modern preppies try to be assholes, probably because they think it's cool, and never quite make it.Ex: The diplomats have been calling him a lucky dimwit ever since.Ex: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex: I don't really care if he does like real ale, even if his arse was hung with diamonds he would still be a twat.Ex: In fact, there was little doubt in his mind that Nigel was an arse of the highest order.Ex: By this time, firecrackers and fireworks were being let off willy-nilly in the streets by any mug with a match.Ex: And before some berk starts whittling on about anti-car lobbies, we should all be lobbying for less car use if we've got any interest whatsoever in the future.Ex: Steve knows that he is a 'showboat, a little bit of a prick,' but he also knows that it's too late for a man in his fifties to change.Ex: This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from Feeble minded, Imbecility, and morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.Ex: Cretin is a word derived from an 18th century Swiss-French word meaning Christian.Ex: The Wizard, played by Joel Grey, is a smooth-talking dumbbell who admits he is 'a corn-fed hick' and 'one of your dime-a-dozen mediocrities'.Ex: This chapter is dedicated to the truly asinine rules -- ones which either defeat their own purpose altogether or are completely devoid of common sense.Ex: The court also heard the victim's brother accuse the defendant of physical abuse and of calling him a ' lemon and a retard'.Ex: Some people like airheads with fake boobs.Ex: She's just an airheaded bimbo, with an endless capacity to push aside unpleasant realities in favor of her more satisfying interests: young men and jewels.Ex: The article is entitled 'Field Research for Boneheads: From Naivete to Insight on the Green Tortoise'.Ex: Plus, no matter what she did to stop people from picking on her she always ended up being called a duffer.Ex: Now I know to you inteligent types this sounds a simple problem but to a drongo like me it is like quantum physics!!!.Ex: Schmuck entered English as a borrowed word from Yiddish, where it is an obscene term literally meaning a foreskin or head of a penis, and an insult.Ex: This team of schmoes is capable of anything.Ex: Justin, whilst clearly a nonce, is to be commended on instigating a high-profile campaign to free the hostages.Ex: States know better what their own citizens needs are than do the mokes in Washington.Ex: He started life as a twerp, then fairly quickly became a jerk and ended up an old sourpuss.Ex: For this reason, I will probably not vote in the London mayoral election at all and this doesn't make me a whinging negativist dweeb.Ex: Americans are such chumps, because we refuse to see what is going on right in front of our eyes.Ex: She has her own birdbrained way of thinking about things, but most of what she says is vaguely prophetic.Ex: I am thinking humans can be such birdbrains when it comes to communication.Ex: And then we get nongs like Joe here who just cant help himself from being a dork.Ex: If she'd been my daughter in fact I'd never have let her go out with an obvious plonker like myself.* como un idiota = stupidly.* idiota genio = idiot savant.* * *me caí de la manera más idiota I had the most idiotic o stupid fall ( colloq)¡no seas idiota! don't be so stupid!, don't be such an idiot!2 ( Med) idiotic2 ( Med) idiotCompuesto:idealistic puppet o stooge* * *
idiota adjetivo (fam) ( tonto) stupid, idiotic;◊ ¡no seas idiota! don't be such an idiot!
■ sustantivo masculino y femenino ( tonto) (fam) idiot, stupid fool (colloq)
idiota
I adjetivo idiotic, stupid
II mf idiot, fool
' idiota' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
tomar
- trompo
- verdadera
- verdadero
- pedazo
- perdido
English:
bozo
- fool
- idiot
- idiotic
- knob
- make out
- meathead
- moron
- nerd
- plonker
- right
- some
- inane
- mug
* * *♦ adj1. [tonto] stupid2. [enfermo] mentally deficient♦ nmf1. [tonto] idiot2. [enfermo] idiot* * *I adj idioticII m/f idiot* * *idiota adj: idiotic, stupid, foolishidiota nmf: idiot, foolish person* * *idiota2 n idiot -
8 imbécil
adj.imbecile, fatheaded, stupid, half-witted.f. & m.imbecile, idiot, blinking idiot, cretin.* * *► adjetivo1 MEDICINA (retrasado) imbecile2 familiar stupid, imbecile1 MEDICINA imbecile2 familiar idiot, imbecile* * *1. adj. 2. noun mf.1) imbecile2) idiot, fool* * *1. ADJ1) (=idiota) silly, stupid2) (Med) imbecile2. SMF1) (=idiota) imbecile, idiot¡imbécil! — you idiot!
2) (Med) imbecile* * *Ia) (fam) ( tonto) stupidqué imbécil eres! — you're so stupid!, you're such an idiot!
b) (Med) imbecilicIImasculino y femeninoa) (fam) ( tonto) stupid idiot, moron (colloq & pej)b) (Med) imbecile* * *= feeble minded, moron, twit, imbecile, cretinous, arsehole [asshole, -USA], dimwit, dim-witted [dimwitted], brainless, twat, arse, witless, mug, berk, prick, blockhead, nonce, jerk, dweeb, plonker.Ex. This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from feeble minded, Imbecility, and Morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.Ex. This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from Feeble minded, Imbecility, and morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.Ex. Democracy's a nice idea in theory, if it wasn't for all the twits.Ex. The same evil is done in slaving, tormenting and killing, say, chimpanzees as is done in so injuring human imbeciles.Ex. It is already evident that he is a cretinous buffoon.Ex. Modern preppies try to be assholes, probably because they think it's cool, and never quite make it.Ex. The diplomats have been calling him a lucky dimwit ever since.Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex. I don't really care if he does like real ale, even if his arse was hung with diamonds he would still be a twat.Ex. In fact, there was little doubt in his mind that Nigel was an arse of the highest order.Ex. She refutes the idea of the women's magazine as a 'mouthpiece of masculine interest, of patriarchy and commercialism' that preyed on 'passive, dependent, and witless' women readers.Ex. By this time, firecrackers and fireworks were being let off willy-nilly in the streets by any mug with a match.Ex. And before some berk starts whittling on about anti-car lobbies, we should all be lobbying for less car use if we've got any interest whatsoever in the future.Ex. Steve knows that he is a 'showboat, a little bit of a prick,' but he also knows that it's too late for a man in his fifties to change.Ex. They'd all call him blockhead, the ribbing was endless.Ex. Justin, whilst clearly a nonce, is to be commended on instigating a high-profile campaign to free the hostages.Ex. He started life as a twerp, then fairly quickly became a jerk and ended up an old sourpuss.Ex. For this reason, I will probably not vote in the London mayoral election at all and this doesn't make me a whinging negativist dweeb.Ex. If she'd been my daughter in fact I'd never have let her go out with an obvious plonker like myself.* * *Ia) (fam) ( tonto) stupidqué imbécil eres! — you're so stupid!, you're such an idiot!
b) (Med) imbecilicIImasculino y femeninoa) (fam) ( tonto) stupid idiot, moron (colloq & pej)b) (Med) imbecile* * *= feeble minded, moron, twit, imbecile, cretinous, arsehole [asshole, -USA], dimwit, dim-witted [dimwitted], brainless, twat, arse, witless, mug, berk, prick, blockhead, nonce, jerk, dweeb, plonker.Ex: This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from feeble minded, Imbecility, and Morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.
Ex: This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from Feeble minded, Imbecility, and morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.Ex: Democracy's a nice idea in theory, if it wasn't for all the twits.Ex: The same evil is done in slaving, tormenting and killing, say, chimpanzees as is done in so injuring human imbeciles.Ex: It is already evident that he is a cretinous buffoon.Ex: Modern preppies try to be assholes, probably because they think it's cool, and never quite make it.Ex: The diplomats have been calling him a lucky dimwit ever since.Ex: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex: I don't really care if he does like real ale, even if his arse was hung with diamonds he would still be a twat.Ex: In fact, there was little doubt in his mind that Nigel was an arse of the highest order.Ex: She refutes the idea of the women's magazine as a 'mouthpiece of masculine interest, of patriarchy and commercialism' that preyed on 'passive, dependent, and witless' women readers.Ex: By this time, firecrackers and fireworks were being let off willy-nilly in the streets by any mug with a match.Ex: And before some berk starts whittling on about anti-car lobbies, we should all be lobbying for less car use if we've got any interest whatsoever in the future.Ex: Steve knows that he is a 'showboat, a little bit of a prick,' but he also knows that it's too late for a man in his fifties to change.Ex: They'd all call him blockhead, the ribbing was endless.Ex: Justin, whilst clearly a nonce, is to be commended on instigating a high-profile campaign to free the hostages.Ex: He started life as a twerp, then fairly quickly became a jerk and ended up an old sourpuss.Ex: For this reason, I will probably not vote in the London mayoral election at all and this doesn't make me a whinging negativist dweeb.Ex: If she'd been my daughter in fact I'd never have let her go out with an obvious plonker like myself.* * *¡qué imbécil eres! you're so stupid!, you're such an idiot!2 ( Med) imbecilic2 ( Med) imbecile* * *
imbécil adjetivo
b) (Med) imbecilic
■ sustantivo masculino y femenino
b) (Med) imbecile
imbécil
I adjetivo stupid, silly
II mf idiot, fool
' imbécil' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
capullo
- trompo
- boludo
- huevón
- pelota
- verdadero
English:
absolute
- berk
- call
- dead
- dimwit
- dope
- feeble-minded
- feel
- git
- halfwit
- idiot
- imbecile
- jerk
- knob
- nitwit
- perfect
- raving
- stupid
- then
- twit
- wally
- weak-minded
- ass
- moron
- prat
- sucker
* * *♦ adj1. [tonto] stupid2. [enfermo] imbecile♦ nmf1. [tonto] idiot2. [enfermo] imbecile* * *I adj1 stupid2 MED imbecilicII m/f idiot, imbecile* * *imbécil adj: stupid, idioticimbécil nmf1) : imbecile* * *imbécil2 n idiot -
9 lelo
adj.silly, foolish, stupid, simpleton.m.halfwit, dope, silly person.* * *► adjetivo1 familiar gormless, stupid* * *lelo, -a *1.ADJ (=tonto) slow2.SM / F (=tonto) halfwitparece que te ven cara de lelo — they seem to think you're totally stupid, they seem to think you were born yesterday
* * ** * *= dullard, dimwit, dim-witted [dimwitted], brainless, twat, potty [pottier -comp., pottiest -sup.], kook, daffy [daffier -comp., daffiest -sup.], daft [dafter -comp., daftest -sup.], nonce, gaga, barmy [barmier -comp., barmiest -sup.].Ex. The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to bad end.Ex. The diplomats have been calling him a lucky dimwit ever since.Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex. I don't really care if he does like real ale, even if his arse was hung with diamonds he would still be a twat.Ex. The press may be free, but the system is potty.Ex. He then ended his affair with Mia, Bram's housekeeper cum lottery winner and daughter of the kook who swears he was abuducted by aliens.Ex. This isn't as daffy as it seems to us as we hustle about on the verge of the third millennium.Ex. Ranking among the dafter exercises sometimes imposed on children is the one that requires them to describe a screwdriver or a vase or the desks they sit at, or any familiar object.Ex. Justin, whilst clearly a nonce, is to be commended on instigating a high-profile campaign to free the hostages.Ex. So if Ellen and Baltar are anything to go by, it seems exceptionally smart people are a bit gaga.Ex. He gets more and more hysterical every week and frankly gives the impression of being a bit barmy by grinning like a maniac and shouting his head off.* * ** * *= dullard, dimwit, dim-witted [dimwitted], brainless, twat, potty [pottier -comp., pottiest -sup.], kook, daffy [daffier -comp., daffiest -sup.], daft [dafter -comp., daftest -sup.], nonce, gaga, barmy [barmier -comp., barmiest -sup.].Ex: The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to bad end.
Ex: The diplomats have been calling him a lucky dimwit ever since.Ex: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex: I don't really care if he does like real ale, even if his arse was hung with diamonds he would still be a twat.Ex: The press may be free, but the system is potty.Ex: He then ended his affair with Mia, Bram's housekeeper cum lottery winner and daughter of the kook who swears he was abuducted by aliens.Ex: This isn't as daffy as it seems to us as we hustle about on the verge of the third millennium.Ex: Ranking among the dafter exercises sometimes imposed on children is the one that requires them to describe a screwdriver or a vase or the desks they sit at, or any familiar object.Ex: Justin, whilst clearly a nonce, is to be commended on instigating a high-profile campaign to free the hostages.Ex: So if Ellen and Baltar are anything to go by, it seems exceptionally smart people are a bit gaga.Ex: He gets more and more hysterical every week and frankly gives the impression of being a bit barmy by grinning like a maniac and shouting his head off.* * *( fam)2 (pasmado) speechlessme quedé lelo con su respuesta I was struck dumb by his reply, his reply left me speechlessmasculine, feminine* * *
lelo◊ -la adjetivo (fam) ( tonto) slow on the uptake;
( pasmado) speechless
lelo,-a familiar
I adjetivo stupid, silly
II sustantivo masculino y femenino dummy, dimwit
' lelo' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
boba
- bobo
- lela
English:
barmy
- birdbrained
- dopey
* * *lelo, -a♦ adjstupid, slow♦ nm,fidiot* * *adj slow(-witted)* * *lelo, -la adj: silly, stupid -
10 retrasado
adj.1 late, behind schedule, behind-time, overdue.2 retarded, backward, cretinous, feeble-minded.3 underdeveloped, under-developed, backward, backwards.past part.past participle of spanish verb: retrasar.* * *1→ link=retrasar retrasar► adjetivo1 (en conocimientos, trabajo) behind2 (pagos) late3 (reloj) slow4 (tren, avión, etc) delayed5 (país) backward, underdeveloped6 (mental) retarded, backward► nombre masculino,nombre femenino1 mentally retarded person* * *(f. - retrasada)adj.1) retarded2) backward3) behind* * *retrasado, -a1. ADJ1) [en una actividad]estar o ir retrasado — to be behind
va muy retrasado en química — he is very behind in chemistry, he has a lot to make up in chemistry
estar retrasado en los pagos — to be behind in o with one's payments, be in arrears
2) [en el tiempo] [persona] latellegó retrasado a la reunión — he was late for the meeting, he got to the meeting late
3) [en el desarrollo] [país, pueblo, sociedad] backwardnuestro sistema universitario va retrasado respecto a otros países — our university system is very backward compared with o is behind that of other countries
4) (=no actual) [ideas, estilo] outdated, outmoded5) [reloj] slow6) [mentalmente] mentally retarded2.* * *I- da adjetivoa) [SER] (Med, Psic) mentally handicappedb) [ESTAR] (en tarea, actividad)va or está muy retrasado con respecto a los demás — he lags a long way behind the others
c) <país/sociedad> backwardd) < reloj> slowII- da masculino, femenino: tbretrasado mental — mentally handicapped person, (mentally) retarded person, retard (AmE colloq & pej)
* * *= backward, backwards, retarded, cretinous, dimwit, dim-witted [dimwitted], brainless, twat, nonce.Ex. There are no entries under the terms backward, Deficient, Handicapped, Mental deficiency, Mentally deficient despite the fact that Class JGJ is devoted to the teaching of Deficient, Handicapped, etc.Ex. Besides, basing our future course on 'observations in our present-day libraries' is a little backwards.Ex. A social skills training program was conducted with three mildly retarded black mothers identified as child maltreaters.Ex. It is already evident that he is a cretinous buffoon.Ex. The diplomats have been calling him a lucky dimwit ever since.Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex. I don't really care if he does like real ale, even if his arse was hung with diamonds he would still be a twat.Ex. Justin, whilst clearly a nonce, is to be commended on instigating a high-profile campaign to free the hostages.----* retrasado mental = mentally retarded person, mentally backward.* retrasados mentales, los = mentally retarded, the.* * *I- da adjetivoa) [SER] (Med, Psic) mentally handicappedb) [ESTAR] (en tarea, actividad)va or está muy retrasado con respecto a los demás — he lags a long way behind the others
c) <país/sociedad> backwardd) < reloj> slowII- da masculino, femenino: tbretrasado mental — mentally handicapped person, (mentally) retarded person, retard (AmE colloq & pej)
* * *= backward, backwards, retarded, cretinous, dimwit, dim-witted [dimwitted], brainless, twat, nonce.Ex: There are no entries under the terms backward, Deficient, Handicapped, Mental deficiency, Mentally deficient despite the fact that Class JGJ is devoted to the teaching of Deficient, Handicapped, etc.
Ex: Besides, basing our future course on 'observations in our present-day libraries' is a little backwards.Ex: A social skills training program was conducted with three mildly retarded black mothers identified as child maltreaters.Ex: It is already evident that he is a cretinous buffoon.Ex: The diplomats have been calling him a lucky dimwit ever since.Ex: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex: I don't really care if he does like real ale, even if his arse was hung with diamonds he would still be a twat.Ex: Justin, whilst clearly a nonce, is to be commended on instigating a high-profile campaign to free the hostages.* retrasado mental = mentally retarded person, mentally backward.* retrasados mentales, los = mentally retarded, the.* * *un niño retrasado a child with learning difficulties; (más grave) a mentally retarded o handicapped child2 [ ESTAR](en una tarea, actividad): tengo mucho trabajo retrasado I have a big backlog of work, I have a lot of work to catch up onvoy muy retrasado con el trabajo I'm really behind with my workva or está muy retrasado con respecto a sus compañeros he is lagging a long way behind his classmatesestán retrasados en los pagos they are behind in their payments, they are in arrears with their payments3 ‹país/sociedad› backward4 ‹reloj› slowmasculine, femininetb* * *
Del verbo retrasar: ( conjugate retrasar)
retrasado es:
el participio
Multiple Entries:
retrasado
retrasar
retrasado◊ -da adjetivoa) [SER] (Med, Psic) mentally handicappedb) [ESTAR] (en tarea, actividad):
están retrasados en los pagos they are behind in their payments;
tengo trabajo retrasado I have work to catch up on
■ sustantivo masculino, femenino: tb
retrasar ( conjugate retrasar) verbo transitivo
retrasarse verbo pronominal
retrasado,-a
I adjetivo
1 (en el desarrollo físico) underdeveloped, immature
2 (en el desarrollo mental) retarded, backward
II sustantivo masculino y femenino retrasado (mental), mentally handicapped o retarded person
retrasar
I verbo transitivo
1 (hacer que algo vaya más lento) to slow down: las obras retrasaron el tráfico, the road works held up the traffic
2 (posponer) to delay, postpone: tendremos que retrasar las vacaciones, we will have to put off our holidays ➣ Ver nota en delay 3 (un reloj) to put back: retrasé el reloj una hora al llegar a Dublín, I put my clock back one hour when I arrived in Dublin
' retrasado' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
floración
- retrasada
- retrasarse
English:
backward
- delay
- delayed
- late
- retarded
- behind
- subnormal
- unavoidably
* * *retrasado, -a♦ adj1. [país, industria] backward2. [reloj] slow;llevo el reloj retrasado my watch is slow;ese reloj va retrasado that clock is slow3. [tren] late, delayed;vamos muy retrasados en el proyecto we're very behind (schedule) with the project4. [persona] retarded, backward;un paciente retrasado (mental) a mentally retarded patient♦ nm,f* * *I part → retrasarII adjestá retrasado en clase he’s lagging behind in class;retrasado mental mentally handicapped* * *retrasado, -da adj1) : retarded, mentally slow2) : behind, in arrears3) : backward (of a country)4) : slow (of a watch)* * *retrasado adj1. (tren, etc) late2. (trabajo, etc) behind3. (reloj) slow4. (persona) retarded5. (país) backward -
11 tarado
adj.1 defective, damaged.2 cretinous.past part.past participle of spanish verb: tarar.* * *1→ link=tarar tarar► adjetivo1 (defectuoso) defective, damaged2 (persona) handicapped► nombre masculino,nombre femenino* * *tarado, -a1. ADJ1) (Com) defective, imperfect2) [persona] crippled3) * (=idiota) stupid; (=loco) crazy, nuts *2.SM / F * (=idiota) cretin *, moron ** * *I- da adjetivoa) ( minusválido) handicappedb) (fam & pey) ( tonto) stupidII- da masculino, femeninoa) ( minusválido) handicapped personb) (fam & pey) ( imbécil), moron (colloq & pej)* * *= cretinous, dim-witted [dimwitted], dimwit, brainless, twat, wanker, tosser, shithead, dumbbell, retard, nonce.Ex. It is already evident that he is a cretinous buffoon.Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex. The diplomats have been calling him a lucky dimwit ever since.Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex. I don't really care if he does like real ale, even if his arse was hung with diamonds he would still be a twat.Ex. These are the wankers who thought they knew all about fashion.Ex. The site shows that the highest proportions of ' tossers' -- or overspenders -- are in Northern Ireland and eastern England.Ex. With all the pandering shitheads in politics today, it's so refreshing to see some one who will just say 'fuck off, don't bother me'.Ex. The Wizard, played by Joel Grey, is a smooth-talking dumbbell who admits he is 'a corn-fed hick' and 'one of your dime-a-dozen mediocrities'.Ex. The court also heard the victim's brother accuse the defendant of physical abuse and of calling him a 'lemon and a retard'.Ex. Justin, whilst clearly a nonce, is to be commended on instigating a high-profile campaign to free the hostages.* * *I- da adjetivoa) ( minusválido) handicappedb) (fam & pey) ( tonto) stupidII- da masculino, femeninoa) ( minusválido) handicapped personb) (fam & pey) ( imbécil), moron (colloq & pej)* * *= cretinous, dim-witted [dimwitted], dimwit, brainless, twat, wanker, tosser, shithead, dumbbell, retard, nonce.Ex: It is already evident that he is a cretinous buffoon.
Ex: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex: The diplomats have been calling him a lucky dimwit ever since.Ex: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex: I don't really care if he does like real ale, even if his arse was hung with diamonds he would still be a twat.Ex: These are the wankers who thought they knew all about fashion.Ex: The site shows that the highest proportions of ' tossers' -- or overspenders -- are in Northern Ireland and eastern England.Ex: With all the pandering shitheads in politics today, it's so refreshing to see some one who will just say 'fuck off, don't bother me'.Ex: The Wizard, played by Joel Grey, is a smooth-talking dumbbell who admits he is 'a corn-fed hick' and 'one of your dime-a-dozen mediocrities'.Ex: The court also heard the victim's brother accuse the defendant of physical abuse and of calling him a 'lemon and a retard'.Ex: Justin, whilst clearly a nonce, is to be commended on instigating a high-profile campaign to free the hostages.* * *1 (minusválido) handicappedmasculine, feminine1 (minusválido) handicapped person* * *tarado, -a♦ adj1. [defectuoso] defective3. Andes, RP [nervioso] flustered;[distraído] muddled;hoy estoy tarado, dormí muy mal I'm not with it today, I slept really badly♦ nm,fPey idiot* * *adj famstupid, dumb fam -
12 tontaina
adj.daft (informal).f. & m.1 daft idiot.2 fool, dimwit.* * *► adjetivo1 familiar foolish, silly1 familiar fool, nitwit* * *= dimwit, dim-witted [dimwitted], brainless, twat, simp, deadhead, nincompoop, nonce, nong, ning-nong.Nota: Expresión más comúnmente usada en Australia y, a veces, abreviada a nong.Ex. The diplomats have been calling him a lucky dimwit ever since.Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex. I don't really care if he does like real ale, even if his arse was hung with diamonds he would still be a twat.Ex. This collection of videos pays tribute to nincompoops, deadheads and simps: people who walk into sliding glass doors and out of public restrooms with toilet paper trailing from one of their shoes.Ex. This collection of videos pays tribute to nincompoops, deadheads and simps: people who walk into sliding glass doors and out of public restrooms with toilet paper trailing from one of their shoes.Ex. This collection of videos pays tribute to nincompoops, deadheads and simps: people who walk into sliding glass doors and out of public restrooms with toilet paper trailing from one of their shoes.Ex. Justin, whilst clearly a nonce, is to be commended on instigating a high-profile campaign to free the hostages.Ex. And then we get nongs like Joe here who just cant help himself from being a dork.Ex. Thanks to those who do this for ning-nongs like myself.* * *= dimwit, dim-witted [dimwitted], brainless, twat, simp, deadhead, nincompoop, nonce, nong, ning-nong.Nota: Expresión más comúnmente usada en Australia y, a veces, abreviada a nong.Ex: The diplomats have been calling him a lucky dimwit ever since.
Ex: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Ex: I don't really care if he does like real ale, even if his arse was hung with diamonds he would still be a twat.Ex: This collection of videos pays tribute to nincompoops, deadheads and simps: people who walk into sliding glass doors and out of public restrooms with toilet paper trailing from one of their shoes.Ex: This collection of videos pays tribute to nincompoops, deadheads and simps: people who walk into sliding glass doors and out of public restrooms with toilet paper trailing from one of their shoes.Ex: This collection of videos pays tribute to nincompoops, deadheads and simps: people who walk into sliding glass doors and out of public restrooms with toilet paper trailing from one of their shoes.Ex: Justin, whilst clearly a nonce, is to be commended on instigating a high-profile campaign to free the hostages.Ex: And then we get nongs like Joe here who just cant help himself from being a dork.Ex: Thanks to those who do this for ning-nongs like myself.* * *( fam hum); sillynitwit ( colloq)* * *
tontaina mf fam silly person, fool
* * *♦ adjcrazy, Br daft♦ nmfcrazy idiot* * *I adj sillyII m/f famdimwit fam -
13 seso
m.1 brain (cerebro).2 brains, sense (sensatez).* * *1 brain1 COCINA brains\beber el seso / beberse el seso familiar to lose one's mindcalentarse los sesos / devanarse los sesos familiar to rack one's brainstener sorbido el seso a alguien / tener sorbidos los sesos a alguien familiar to have somebody under one's spell* * *SM1) (Anat) brain2) (=inteligencia) brains pl, intelligence3) pl sesos (Culin) brains* * *a) (Anat, Zool) braindevanarse or estrujarse los sesos — (fam) to rack one's brains (colloq)
haber perdido el seso por alguien — (fam) to be crazy about somebody (colloq)
sorberle el seso a alguien — (fam) to bowl somebody over (colloq)
esa chica le tiene sorbido el seso — he's completely bowled over by that girl
tener poco seso — (fam) to be brainless (colloq)
b) sesos masculino plural (Coc) brains (pl)* * *= brain.Ex. All the phenomena within this facet, -- heart, liver, lungs, brain, kidneys etc -- share this characteristic in common.----* devanarse los sesos = scratch + Posesivo + head, rack + Posesivo + brains.* estrujarse los sesos = rack + Posesivo + brains.* exprimirse los sesos = rack + Posesivo + brains.* * *a) (Anat, Zool) braindevanarse or estrujarse los sesos — (fam) to rack one's brains (colloq)
haber perdido el seso por alguien — (fam) to be crazy about somebody (colloq)
sorberle el seso a alguien — (fam) to bowl somebody over (colloq)
esa chica le tiene sorbido el seso — he's completely bowled over by that girl
tener poco seso — (fam) to be brainless (colloq)
b) sesos masculino plural (Coc) brains (pl)* * *= brain.Ex: All the phenomena within this facet, -- heart, liver, lungs, brain, kidneys etc -- share this characteristic in common.
* devanarse los sesos = scratch + Posesivo + head, rack + Posesivo + brains.* estrujarse los sesos = rack + Posesivo + brains.* exprimirse los sesos = rack + Posesivo + brains.* * *esa chica le tiene sorbido el seso he's completely bowled over by that girltener mucho seso ( fam); to have a good head on one's shouldersha demostrado tener muy poco seso he's shown how brainless he is, he's shown that he doesn't have much up top ( colloq)* * *
seso sustantivo masculinoa) (Anat, Zool) brainb)
seso sustantivo masculino
1 Anat brain
2 (juicio, prudencia) wit, prudence: tiene muy poquito seso, she has very little sense
3 Culin sesos, brains
♦ Locuciones: calentarse o devanarse los sesos, to rack one's brains
sorberle el seso a alguien, to dominate sb
' seso' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
sorber
English:
claw
- grey matter
* * *seso nm1. [cerebro] brain;le volaron de un tiro la tapa de los sesos with one shot they blew his brains out2. [sensatez] brains, sense3.sesos [para comer] brains4. CompFam Famperder el seso: ha perdido el seso por ella he's madly in love with her;Fam Famtiene poco seso he's not very bright* * *m1 ANAT brain; figbrains pl, sense;sorber el seso a alguien, tener sorbido el seso a alguien have s.o. under one’s spell2 GASTR:sesos pl brains* * *seso nm1) : brains, intelligence2) sesos nmpl: brains (as food)* * *seso n brain / brains -
14 descerebrado
adj.1 brainless.2 decerebrate.past part.past participle of spanish verb: descerebrar.* * *ADJ brainless, mindless* * *♦ adjmoronic, brainless♦ nm,fmoron, halfwit* * *adj mindless -
15 corto de luces
(adj.) = dim [dimmer -comp., dimmest -sup.], dim-witted [dimwitted]Ex. It's all about the people in charge, are they smart? are they dim?.Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.* * *(adj.) = dim [dimmer -comp., dimmest -sup.], dim-witted [dimwitted]Ex: It's all about the people in charge, are they smart? are they dim?.
Ex: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience. -
16 de pocas luces
(adj.) = dim [dimmer -comp., dimmest -sup.], dim-witted [dimwitted]Ex. It's all about the people in charge, are they smart? are they dim?.Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.* * *(adj.) = dim [dimmer -comp., dimmest -sup.], dim-witted [dimwitted]Ex: It's all about the people in charge, are they smart? are they dim?.
Ex: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience. -
17 necio
adj.silly, ignorant, stupid, foolish.* * *► adjetivo1 stupid► nombre masculino,nombre femenino1 imbecile, idiot* * *necio, -a1. ADJ1) (=tonto) foolish, stupid2) Méx (=terco) stubborn, pig-headed3) And (=displicente) peevish5) CAm [enfermedad] hard to shake off2.SM / F fool* * *- cia adjetivo1) ( tonto) stupid2) (AmC, Col, Ven fam) ( travieso) naughty* * *= moron, cretin, dull-witted, asinine, lemon, airhead, airheaded, bonehead, duffer, schmuck, schmo, moke, twerp, dweeb, chump, birdbrained, birdbrain, dork, plonker.Ex. This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from Feeble minded, Imbecility, and morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.Ex. Cretin is a word derived from an 18th century Swiss-French word meaning Christian.Ex. This chapter is dedicated to the truly asinine rules -- ones which either defeat their own purpose altogether or are completely devoid of common sense.Ex. The court also heard the victim's brother accuse the defendant of physical abuse and of calling him a ' lemon and a retard'.Ex. Some people like airheads with fake boobs.Ex. She's just an airheaded bimbo, with an endless capacity to push aside unpleasant realities in favor of her more satisfying interests: young men and jewels.Ex. The article is entitled 'Field Research for Boneheads: From Naivete to Insight on the Green Tortoise'.Ex. Plus, no matter what she did to stop people from picking on her she always ended up being called a duffer.Ex. Schmuck entered English as a borrowed word from Yiddish, where it is an obscene term literally meaning a foreskin or head of a penis, and an insult.Ex. This team of schmoes is capable of anything.Ex. States know better what their own citizens needs are than do the mokes in Washington.Ex. He started life as a twerp, then fairly quickly became a jerk and ended up an old sourpuss.Ex. For this reason, I will probably not vote in the London mayoral election at all and this doesn't make me a whinging negativist dweeb.Ex. Americans are such chumps, because we refuse to see what is going on right in front of our eyes.Ex. She has her own birdbrained way of thinking about things, but most of what she says is vaguely prophetic.Ex. I am thinking humans can be such birdbrains when it comes to communication.Ex. And then we get nongs like Joe here who just cant help himself from being a dork.Ex. If she'd been my daughter in fact I'd never have let her go out with an obvious plonker like myself.----* como un necio = stupidly.* * *- cia adjetivo1) ( tonto) stupid2) (AmC, Col, Ven fam) ( travieso) naughty* * *= moron, cretin, dull-witted, asinine, lemon, airhead, airheaded, bonehead, duffer, schmuck, schmo, moke, twerp, dweeb, chump, birdbrained, birdbrain, dork, plonker.Ex: This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from Feeble minded, Imbecility, and morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.
Ex: Cretin is a word derived from an 18th century Swiss-French word meaning Christian.Ex: An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.Ex: This chapter is dedicated to the truly asinine rules -- ones which either defeat their own purpose altogether or are completely devoid of common sense.Ex: The court also heard the victim's brother accuse the defendant of physical abuse and of calling him a ' lemon and a retard'.Ex: Some people like airheads with fake boobs.Ex: She's just an airheaded bimbo, with an endless capacity to push aside unpleasant realities in favor of her more satisfying interests: young men and jewels.Ex: The article is entitled 'Field Research for Boneheads: From Naivete to Insight on the Green Tortoise'.Ex: Plus, no matter what she did to stop people from picking on her she always ended up being called a duffer.Ex: Schmuck entered English as a borrowed word from Yiddish, where it is an obscene term literally meaning a foreskin or head of a penis, and an insult.Ex: This team of schmoes is capable of anything.Ex: States know better what their own citizens needs are than do the mokes in Washington.Ex: He started life as a twerp, then fairly quickly became a jerk and ended up an old sourpuss.Ex: For this reason, I will probably not vote in the London mayoral election at all and this doesn't make me a whinging negativist dweeb.Ex: Americans are such chumps, because we refuse to see what is going on right in front of our eyes.Ex: She has her own birdbrained way of thinking about things, but most of what she says is vaguely prophetic.Ex: I am thinking humans can be such birdbrains when it comes to communication.Ex: And then we get nongs like Joe here who just cant help himself from being a dork.Ex: If she'd been my daughter in fact I'd never have let her go out with an obvious plonker like myself.* como un necio = stupidly.* * *B ( RPl) (susceptible) touchymasculine, feminineA (persona tonta) foolel necio es atrevido y el sabio comedido fools rush in where angels fear to treadB ( RPl) (persona susceptible) touchy person* * *
necio◊ - cia adjetivo
necio,-a
I adjetivo stupid, fatuous
II sustantivo masculino y femenino stupid fool: su hermano es un necio, his brother's an idiot
♦ Locuciones: a palabras necias, oídos sordos, turn a deaf ear to foolish comments
' necio' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
animal
- burra
- burro
- necia
- subnormal
* * *necio, -a♦ adj1. [tonto] stupid, foolish2. Am [terco] stubborn, pigheaded♦ nm,f1. [tonto] idiot, fool2. Am [terco] stubborn o pigheaded person;es un necio he's really stubborn o pigheadedes un necio he's really touchy* * *I adj brainlessII m, necia f fool, idiot* * *1) : foolish, silly, dumbestúpido: fool, idiot -
18 atontado
adj.dazed, brainless, dimwitted, dumbfounded.past part.past participle of spanish verb: atontar.* * *1→ link=atontar atontar► adjetivo1 (aturdido) stunned, confused, bewildered2 (tonto) stupid, silly, foolish* * *(f. - atontada)adj.* * *ADJ1) (=aturdido) bewildered, stunned2) (=tonto) stupid, thick ** * *contesta, que estás medio atontado — answer me, you're in a daze
* * *= punch-drunk, groggy [groggier -comp., groggiest -sup.].Ex. However, Shere cautioned against becoming ' punch-drunk' from the impact of machines.Ex. The groggy feeling you get after being awakened by an alarm is often the result of an interrupted sleep cycle.----* atontado con = besotted with.* * *contesta, que estás medio atontado — answer me, you're in a daze
* * *= punch-drunk, groggy [groggier -comp., groggiest -sup.].Ex: However, Shere cautioned against becoming ' punch-drunk' from the impact of machines.
Ex: The groggy feeling you get after being awakened by an alarm is often the result of an interrupted sleep cycle.* atontado con = besotted with.* * *atontado -da1 (por un golpe, el asombro) stunned, dazed2(distraído): venga hombre, contesta, que estás medio atontado come on, answer me, you're miles away o in a dazeestá como atontado, nunca se entera de nada he's in a world of his own, he never knows what's going on* * *
Del verbo atontar: ( conjugate atontar)
atontado es:
el participio
Multiple Entries:
atontado
atontar
atontado
( distraído):◊ contesta, que estás medio atontado answer me, you're in a daze;
ver tb atontar
atontar ( conjugate atontar) verbo transitivo [ golpe] to stun, daze;
estas pastillas me atontan these pills make me groggy;
la televisión los atonta television turns them into vegetables o zombies
atontado,-a adjetivo
1 (bobo) silly, foolish
2 (aturdido) bewildered, amazed
atontar verbo transitivo to confuse, bewilder
' atontado' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
abotargada
- abotargado
- atontada
- abombado
English:
dazed
- dopey
- groggy
- punch
* * *atontado, -a♦ adj1. [aturdido] dazed, stunned;el golpe lo dejó atontado the blow stunned o dazed him♦ nm,fidiot, half-wit* * *adj dazed, stunned* * *atontado adj stunned -
19 corto2
2 = dim-witted [dimwitted].Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.----* corto de luces = dim [dimmer -comp., dimmest -sup.], dim-witted [dimwitted].* más corto que las mangas de un chaleco = as thick as two (short) planks, as shy as shy can be, as thick as a brick, as daft as a brush, knucklehead. -
20 insensato
adj.1 unwise, brainless, light-headed, mad.2 imprudent, ill-advised, unwise.* * *► adjetivo1 foolish► nombre masculino,nombre femenino1 fool* * *ADJ foolish, stupid* * *I- ta adjetivo foolishII- ta masculino, femenino fool* * *= reckless, foolhardy.Ex. The article is entitled ' Reckless driving on the information highway, or, is the scholar of the research library effectively using the available resources?'.Ex. There is nothing wrong with killing enemy soldiers that are attacking you and it would seem foolhardy just to let them escape.* * *I- ta adjetivo foolishII- ta masculino, femenino fool* * *= reckless, foolhardy.Ex: The article is entitled ' Reckless driving on the information highway, or, is the scholar of the research library effectively using the available resources?'.
Ex: There is nothing wrong with killing enemy soldiers that are attacking you and it would seem foolhardy just to let them escape.* * *‹persona› foolish; ‹acción/palabras› foolish, senselessmasculine, femininefool* * *
insensato◊ -ta adjetivo
foolish
■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
fool
insensato,-a
I adjetivo foolish
II sustantivo masculino y femenino fool
' insensato' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
insensata
- inconsciente
- majadero
English:
insane
- foolish
* * *insensato, -a♦ adjfoolish, senseless♦ nm,ffoolish o senseless person, fool;¡qué has hecho, insensato! what have you done, you fool o idiot?* * *adj foolish* * *insensato, -ta adj: foolish, senselessinsensato, -ta n: fool* * *insensato adj foolish
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См. также в других словарях:
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brainless — [brān′lis] adj. foolish or stupid brainlessly adv. brainlessness n … English World dictionary
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brainless — adjective Date: 15th century devoid of intelligence ; stupid < a brainless decision > • brainlessly adverb • brainlessness noun … New Collegiate Dictionary
brainless — adj. Brainless is used with these nouns: ↑idiot … Collocations dictionary
brainless — brain|less [ˈbreınləs] adj completely stupid ▪ What a brainless thing to do! >brainlessly adv … Dictionary of contemporary English
brainless — adjective completely stupid: What a brainless thing to do! brainlessly adverb … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
Brainless Wankers — Allgemeine Informationen Genre(s) „Punkrock mit Trompete“ Gründung 1991 Auflösung 2008 Website … Deutsch Wikipedia
brainless — brainlessly, adv. brainlessness, n. /brayn lis/, adj. mentally weak; foolish; witless; stupid. [1400 50; late ME braynles. See BRAIN, LESS] * * * … Universalium