JACKASS Synonyms: 164 Similar and Opposite Words

jackass

noun

ˈjak-ˌas

as in fool

a person who lacks good sense or judgment only a jackass would dive into a lake without first checking to see how deep the water is

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as in idiot

a stupid person you don't have to act like a jackass just to get a girl to notice you

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as in donkey

a sturdy and patient domestic mammal that is used especially to carry things with our jackasses loaded with supplies, we slowly made our way down to the floor of the canyon

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Recent Examples of jackass Washed up, tabloid fodder, and marinating in existential malaise, Russ begins the series as a finely observed jackass who drives a Cybertruck, dabbles in crypto, and flashes a diamond earring at the club. —

Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025 Still, the show never gets beyond Russ being a showboating jackass and Chad being the low-IQ projection of a showboating jackass. —

Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2025 Eminem In the first film, Joe Flaherty's character famously heckles Happy by repeatedly calling him a jackass right before he's set to putt. —

Lauren Huff Published, EW.com, 25 July 2025 Shura said that Novikov treated him with disgust, carrying himself like a kham—a jackass. —

Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for jackass

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Don’t let the simple style fool you, though, because the ultra-soft foam insoles provide solid arch support.

— Caitlyn Fitzpatrick, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026
Brute-forcing the one-time code for a single account—meaning iterating through every possible combination until the right one is entered—would be little more than a fool’s errand, even within the three-hour window that the codes remained valid.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 4 June 2026