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thickheaded

[thik-hed-id]

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adjective

(of a person) dull-witted; stupid.

(of an animal) having a thick head.

Origin of thickheaded

First recorded in 1700–10; thick + headed

Related formsthick·head·ed·ly, adverbthick·head·ed·ness, noun

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Related Words for thickheaded

dense, dull, dumb, idiotic, stupid, boneheaded

Examples from the Web for thickheaded

Historical Examples of thickheaded

For a' that, I've had thickheaded friends who've been grateful to me noo and then.
The Coast of Adventure
Harold Bindloss
Nobody but such a thickheaded ass as I am would have gone on all this time without seeing how the game stood.
Frank Fairlegh
Frank E. Smedley
The blow would have crushed the skull of any white man, but it seemed hardly to stun the thickheaded savage.
Bert Wilson, Wireless Operator
J. W. Duffield
Has not he thickheaded ignorant boors; lazy, enslaved farmers, weedy lands?
Past and Present
Thomas Carlyle