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Definition of 'Dunce' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) dunce
a dull-witted, stupid, or ignorant person.

Etymology:  (1520–30; after John Duns Scotus , whose writings were attacked by the humanists as foolish)

Definition of 'Dunce' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, dumbass, fuckhead
a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence


Definition of 'Dunce' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Dunce
one backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt


Translation of 'Dunce' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a person who is slow at learning or stupid
I was an absolute dunce at school.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: stommerik Arabic flag Arabic: غَبي Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: тъпак
Brazilian flag Brazilian: bobo Czech flag Czech: špatný žák, hlupák German flag German: der Dummkopf
Danish flag Danish: fæ; umulius Greek flag Greek: κούτσουρο (μτφ.) Spanish flag Spanish: tonto
Estonian flag Estonian: puupea Farsi flag Farsi: آدم کند ذهن Finnish flag Finnish: tomppeli
French flag French: cancre Hebrew flag Hebrew: טֶמבֵּל, סָתוּם Hindi flag Hindi: मूर्ख, जड़, मूढ़मति
Croatian flag Croatian: budala, glupak Hungarian flag Hungarian: nehézfejű (gyerek) Indonesian flag Indonesian: anak bodoh
Icelandic flag Icelandic: tossi Italian flag Italian: somaro Japanese flag Japanese: ばか
Korean flag Korean: 바보 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: bukagalvis, asilas Latvian flag Latvian: grūtgalvis; stulbenis
Malay flag Malay: lembap Dutch flag Dutch: domkop Norwegian flag Norwegian: narr, tosk
Polish flag Polish: osioł Persian flag Persian: آدم کند ذهن Pashto flag Pashto: غړندى سړى
Portuguese flag Portuguese: bobo Romanian flag Romanian: nătâng; tâmpit Russian flag Russian: тупица
Slovak flag Slovak: zlý žiak, lajdák Slovenian flag Slovenian: slab učenec Serbian flag Serbian: neznalica
Swedish flag Swedish: dumhuvud Thai flag Thai: คนสมองทึบ Turkish flag Turkish: aptal, budala kimse
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 蠢材,駑鈍的人 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: бовдур Urdu flag Urdu: کند ذہن آدمی
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: người tối dạ Chinese flag Chinese: 蠢材,傻瓜

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