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A stupid fellow; a poor-spirited person. [Colloq.] "A muff of a curate." Thackeray.

Stupid; awkward. [Colloq.]

A silent, stupid person. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Absent-minded; dazed; muddled; stupid. The whole company stared at me with a whimsical, muzzy look, like men whose senses were a little obfuscated by beer rather then wine. W. Irving.

A fool; a silly or stupid person. [Law] An old ninnyhammer, a dotard, a nincompoop, is the best language she can afford me. Addison.

A simpleton; a blockhead; a stupid person; a ninny. [Low] The chuckling grin of noodles. Sydney Smith.

A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow. [Colloq.] They have talked like numskulls. Arbuthnot.

Stupid; doltish. [Colloq.]

Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; dull; stupid; as, obtuse senses. Milton.

Having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively: stupidity obstinate; perverse; stubborn. B. Jonson. -- Pig"-head`ed*ness, n.

Dull; heavy; stupid. [R.] J. P. Smith.

A lazy person; a dawdler; also, a stupid or uninteresting person. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

Stupid. [Colloq.]

To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions. To rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom. Atterbury.

A weak-minded, stupid fellow; a milksop. [Low]

ion or character by one's own judgment. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas. Pope.

te of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable. You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things. Shak. The ears are senseless that should give us hearing. Shak. The senseless grave feels not your pious sorrows. Rowe. They were a sen…

Silly; simple-minded; stupid. Taylor (1630)

of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.

Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple. [R.] "So sluggish a conceit." Milton.