NUMSKULLS Synonyms: 125 Similar and Opposite Words

numskulls

noun

variants or numbskulls

plural of numskull

as in morons

a stupid person don't be such a numskull—you know he was only kidding

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Recent Examples of numskulls Movies like Eddington and The Mastermind also render their white male protagonists as ill-prepared and ineffectual numbskulls incapable of confronting their era’s racial and social politics. —

Robert Daniels, Time, 10 Oct. 2025 That’s all fine and dandy, but watching these two numbskulls, like Pinky and the Brain with lobotomies, try to take down Tamra is not fun. —

Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025

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Noun

There are complicated brain-chemistry factors involved that have to do with testosterone, and dopaminergic systems, and kappa-opioid receptors, all of which seem to add up to a Jim Gaffigan joke about how men are morons compared with their wives.

— McKay Coppins, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2026
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