clueless

adjective

clue·less | \ ˈklü-ləs

Definition of clueless

1 : having or providing no clue a clueless case for the police to solve

2 : completely or hopelessly bewildered, unaware, ignorant, or foolish clueless about what they want

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cluelessly adverb

I played dumb. I have arrived at a point in my life where I can perform this stunt with aplomb. "What do you mean?" I asked, as cluelessly as I knew how. — Steve Friedman

cluelessness noun

Mowrey is also trying to make a deer hunter of Bentley, whose cluelessness as an outdoors-man is a rich source of amusement to his country-boy crony. — Austin Murphy

Examples of clueless in a Sentence

When it comes to computers, I'm clueless. They were clueless about what to do.

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The imitation was crude and cruel, but the point was again to make a woman sound stupid, too clueless to make her own decisions. — Glamour, "Tucker Carlson Said Furious Women Should Watch Him. Here’s What I See.," 19 Mar. 2019 Saturday Night Live featured a bit about the game with actor Adam Driver playing a clueless dad. — Andrew Webster, The Verge, "The year in Fortnite," 18 Dec. 2018 This is the most hypocritical, clueless statement in her regrettable time in the WH. — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, "Ivanka Trump Tweets Praise for Oprah's Speech, Twitter Reacts With Derision," 9 Jan. 2018 This is the most hypocritical, clueless statement in her regrettable time in the WH. — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, "Ivanka praises Oprah; Twitter freaks out," 9 Jan. 2018 Parents, meanwhile, are often clueless about their teens’ activities. — Leslie Brody, WSJ, "Half of New York-Area Teens Spend at Least Three Hours a Day Socializing Online," 26 Nov. 2018 Ocasio-Cortez’s victory might be a shocker for the clueless Democratic establishment and their jesters but not Sanders supporters. — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, "It's a bad week to be a Democratic boss," 27 June 2018 Trump supporters, in general, really do seem to be as clueless as your post would suggest. — Eli Rosenberg, Washington Post, "A white man said two black males were suspects in a violent robbery. Then police watched the video.," 9 Feb. 2018 The human impact of Lift’s evil is eventually revealed, but his actions in this particular moment are no more nefarious than the average clueless white tech bro. — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, "Sorry to Bother You Has an Eerily Familiar Villain," 10 July 2018

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