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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DOLT, n. [G.] A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; to behave foolishly.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a person who is not very bright; "The economy, stupid!" [syn: stupid, stupid person, stupe, dullard, dolt, pudding head, pudden-head, poor fish, pillock]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: probably akin to Old English dol foolish Date: 1553 a stupid person • doltish adjective • doltishly adverb • doltishness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a stupid person. Derivatives: doltish adj. doltishly adv. doltishness n. Etymology: app. related to dol, dold, obs. var. of DULL

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dolt Dolt, n. [OE. dulte, prop. p. p. of dullen to dull. See Dull.] A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard. This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt. --Drayton.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dolt Dolt, v. i. To behave foolishly. [Obs.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(dolts) If you call someone a dolt, you think they are stupid, or have done something stupid. (INFORMAL) = idiot N-COUNT [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Simpleton, fool. See dunce.

Moby Thesaurus

Boeotian, ass, birdbrain, block, blockhead, blunderer, blunderhead, bonehead, boob, booby, boor, botcher, bumbler, bungler, chucklehead, chump, clod, clodhopper, clodknocker, clot, clown, dimwit, ding-a-ling, dingbat, dolthead, donkey, dope, dullard, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, dunderpate, fathead, flake, fool, fumbler, gawk, goon, gowk, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, jerk, jobbernowl, klutz, lackwit, lamebrain, lightweight, looby, loon, lout, lubber, lunkhead, moron, muggins, niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, noddy, numskull, oaf, ox, pinhead, put, simpleton, slouch, slubberer, stupid, thickwit, twit, witling, yokel