featherheaded

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for featherheaded
Adjective
  • Jess: The curds themselves are crispy, but the toast is stupid.
    Jess Fleming, Twin Cities, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The dialogue wasn’t dumbed down and stupid comic book stuff.
    William Earl, Variety, 20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Perhaps outright incarceration is foolish, but some responsibility should fall on the parents’ shoulders.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Given that association with the Trumps and their circle defines the club, Donald, Jr., would be foolish to expect less than a fifth of any profits.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Alcaraz and Sinner are early enough in their careers that debates around their legacies feel silly.
    Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Evans described Steve as goofy, silly, and full of charm, with a love for food and people alike.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • My point wasn’t that men have had a harder time than women — that would be absurd.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Given the already substantial spend on incoming transfers, suggesting the club needs more, possibly sending its spending past the $500 million mark, seems absurd, almost greedy.
    James Nalton, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Amanda learned in like 10 seconds, which is insane.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The emu egg—a two pound, eight-inch ovoid with a sultry teal shell gently speckled in pale green—seemed like just the right absurdist final flourish for an already insane endeavor.
    Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Though it's deemed an accident in the play by Queen Gertrude, Ophelia was considered mad and the possibility of suicide was not ruled out.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • When Fishbein visited the property on a recent afternoon, a mad nest of rebar and brick rose over the horizon of a chain-link fence on 23rd Street.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Tauruses will go crazy for something chic, functional, and soft to the touch.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Before getting into the chaos of episode 5, that episode 4 cliff hanger was crazy.
    Calie Schepp, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2023
Adjective
  • And jingoism, idiotic, is not patriotism.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Mar. 2025
  • But, here, the characters suffer from the horror film syndrome of making one idiotic decision after another because that’s what the film requires to send the action in its intended direction.
    Scott Phillips, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Featherheaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/featherheaded. Accessed 28 Aug. 2025.

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