as in idiot
a stupid person
don't let that lunkhead anywhere near your work tools
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Recent Examples of lunkhead
Their rowdy energy is so willfully disreputable, they must be made by a bunch of know-nothing lunkheads.
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Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
However, her lovable lunkhead of a servant, Kronk (Patrick Warburton), gives the emperor the wrong vial of poison and turns him into a llama.
—Devin Nealy, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2023
Except an elderly Russian gangster recognizes the fiftysomething comic as the young American lunkhead (American Vandal‘s Jimmy Tatro) who stole his precious pocket watch all those years ago.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2023
The character was not a hothead but a himbo, a Presidential lunkhead.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2022
The fun throughout, the payoff, is in seeing Beth yank the rug out from one misunderestimating lunkhead and authority figure after another.
—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 2 Nov. 2020
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
However, her lovable lunkhead of a servant, Kronk (Patrick Warburton), gives the emperor the wrong vial of poison and turns him into a llama.
—Devin Nealy, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2023
Except an elderly Russian gangster recognizes the fiftysomething comic as the young American lunkhead (American Vandal‘s Jimmy Tatro) who stole his precious pocket watch all those years ago.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2023
The character was not a hothead but a himbo, a Presidential lunkhead.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2022
The fun throughout, the payoff, is in seeing Beth yank the rug out from one misunderestimating lunkhead and authority figure after another.
—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 2 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lunkhead
Noun
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The Dilbert principle — traced back to a quote in a 1995 strip — posited that managers and higher-ups are actually successful morons whose stubbornness is confused for real leadership qualities.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
13 Jan. 2026
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Overwhelmingly, though, the most common response was to seek confirmation of their suspicions that Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were morons.—
Rosa Lyster,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
Noun
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There is nothing in the past year that suggests that the portion of this global event that will take place in the U.S. will proceed with anything less than exhausting chaos, a spoonful of stupid, and a dash of tragedy.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 Jan. 2026
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And then, the rest of her life, filled with big stupids and everything else, will begin.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
19 Nov. 2025
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“Lunkhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lunkhead. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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