Synonyms for oaf
Definitions
- n. 1
A person, especially a large male, who is clumsy or a simpleton.
Ouch! You dropped that box on my feet, you lumbering oaf!
Related words
- Word family
- oafish
Forms
- Plural
- oafs → louts, fools, dolts, dullards…
Example sentences
- imbecile The imbecile falls on his back and peels his nose.
- dolt Only a dolt could fail to understand what was implied by that letter.
- lout Trump is a lout, because he talks and acts like a lout.
- dullard You're not very bright. You're actually quite a dullard.
- dummy The ventriloquist is performing with a dummy.
By length
- 4 letters
- fool1, lump1, goon1, dolt, gawk1, clod, lout1, boor1
- 5 letters
- moron2, dummy2, booby2, dunce
- 6 letters
- lubber2, lummox, galoot
- 7 letters
- dullard, honyock
- 8 letters
- imbecile3, lunkhead, swapling
- 9 letters
- simpleton
- 10 letters
- changeling, nincompoop3, stumblebum
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (moron2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- dadais