chowderheaded

adjective

as in boobish

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  1. dense
  2. dumb
  3. ignorant
  4. idiotic
  5. slow
  6. opaque
  7. thoughtless
  8. clueless
Adjective
  • Videos of the pyrotechnics display show the pitch filling with tall showers of sparks and dense smoke as dozens of fireworks launched upward.
    — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
  • The rare Saturday night game at the iconic North Side ballpark started an hour late due to rain, then fog billowed in from the north starting in the second inning and got denser.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 July 2026
Definition of dense
Adjective
  • The State’s humor is an interesting mixture of extremely dumb and self-aware.
    — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 5 July 2026
  • Mayhem comes to a coastal New England town in the form of a killer shark who hunts anybody dumb enough to get in the water.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 1 July 2026
Definition of dumb
Adjective
  • Let’s hope that George Santayana’s warning to those ignorant of history about the past repeating itself makes an exception for our present Defense Department.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 28 June 2026
  • And then there are amateur collectors like me, who might not know ironstone from porcelain, but whose last day on earth could be spent touching old objects in ignorant bliss.
    — Jessica Sulima, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2026
Definition of ignorant
Adjective
  • That’s been an idiotic trope for too long — that participating in the business side of it taints you.
    — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
  • Red-Bodied Dog Tick Has your idiotic dog wandered onto a bucolic patch of grass that hasn’t been freshly treated with toxins?
    — Jay Ruttenberg, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
Definition of idiotic
Adjective
  • There was no repeat of the slow start that cost him a spot last season.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 5 July 2026
  • The house old-fashioned can be made with bourbon or gin and is a much slower sip.
    — Blair Crosby, AJC.com, 5 July 2026
Definition of slow
Adjective
  • These ships often operate in legal gray zones, using opaque ownership structures, frequent flag changes and alternative insurance arrangements to avoid sanctions enforcement.
    — John Calabrese, The Conversation, 6 July 2026
  • This is hard because the process occurs in less than a second, and dense metals are opaque.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 July 2026
Definition of opaque
Adjective
  • This tragedy serves as a powerful reminder that no family should have to bury a child because of someone’s thoughtless and irresponsible choices.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 23 June 2026
  • This rhetoric is not just the thoughtless ramblings of mindless partisans.
    — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 30 Apr. 2026
Definition of thoughtless
Adjective
  • But there’s much to like here — from the two leads, the numerous Bay Area shots (the Golden Gate Bridge should get a supporting actor credit), Nick Offerman as a pretentious, cruel chef and Lukas Gage as a clueless cretin love interest/coworker.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 24 June 2026
  • As if each of us isn’t a walking embodiment of our moment, clueless and attuned at once, screaming about one thing and in total denial about another.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
Definition of clueless
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