A former Reagan speechwriter called Sarah Palin "an ignorant nincompoop" after she referred to the late president's role in a movie that had co-starred a chimpanzee.
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Nincompoop
//ˈnɪŋkəmpuːp//
Synonyms for "nincompoop" (214 found)
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Noun(84 words)
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120 translations across 26 languages.
Armenian
3 entries- ապուշ noun (foolish or silly person)
- հիմար noun (foolish or silly person)
- տխմար noun (foolish or silly person)
Bulgarian
1 entries- глупак noun (foolish or silly person)
Catalan
4 entries- babau noun (foolish or silly person)
- beneit noun (foolish or silly person)
- estúpid noun (foolish or silly person)
- fava noun (foolish or silly person)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 傻子 noun (foolish or silly person)
- 笨人 noun (foolish or silly person)
Czech
2 entries- hlupák noun (foolish or silly person)
- idiot noun (foolish or silly person)
Danish
4 entries- fjols noun (foolish or silly person)
- idiot noun (foolish or silly person)
- knallert noun (foolish or silly person)
- skvadderhoved noun (foolish or silly person)
Dutch
4 entries- domoor noun (foolish or silly person)
- lomperd noun (foolish or silly person)
- oelewapper noun (foolish or silly person)
- oetlul noun (foolish or silly person)
Finnish
3 entries- tohelo noun (foolish or silly person)
- tollo noun (foolish or silly person)
- tolvana noun (foolish or silly person)
French
4 entries- abruti noun (foolish or silly person)
- benêt noun (foolish or silly person)
- bercé trop près du mur noun (foolish or silly person)
- cloche noun (foolish or silly person)
German
3 entries- Dummkopf noun (foolish or silly person)
- Einfaltspinsel noun (foolish or silly person)
- Trottel noun (foolish or silly person)
Greek
1 entries- κουτορνίθι noun (foolish or silly person)
Hebrew
2 entries- טפש noun (foolish or silly person)
- טפשה noun (foolish or silly person)
Hindi
2 entries- बेवक़ूफ़ noun (foolish or silly person)
- साला noun (foolish or silly person)
Icelandic
4 entries- beinasni noun (foolish or silly person)
- einfeldningur noun (foolish or silly person)
- fábjáni noun (foolish or silly person)
- fáviti noun (foolish or silly person)
Italian
4 entries- babbeo noun (foolish or silly person)
- coglione noun (foolish or silly person)
- cretino noun (foolish or silly person)
- idiota noun (foolish or silly person)
Japanese
3 entries- あんぽんたん noun (foolish or silly person)
- うすらとんかち noun (foolish or silly person)
- おたんちん noun (foolish or silly person)
Marathi
1 entries- अर्धवट noun (foolish or silly person)
Māori
4 entries- ngoungoua noun (foolish or silly person)
- poroheahea noun (foolish or silly person)
- pōrewarewa noun (foolish or silly person)
- wawau noun (foolish or silly person)
Norwegian
1 entries- tullebukk noun (foolish or silly person)
Polish
4 entries- gamoń noun (foolish or silly person)
- głupek noun (foolish or silly person)
- głupiec noun (foolish or silly person)
- matołek noun (foolish or silly person)
Portuguese
4 entries- bobo noun (foolish or silly person)
- idiota noun (foolish or silly person)
- imbecil noun (foolish or silly person)
- palerma noun (foolish or silly person)
Russian
1 entries- дурачо́к noun (foolish or silly person)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- glupan noun (foolish or silly person)
- glupko noun (foolish or silly person)
- idiot noun (foolish or silly person)
- nesposobnjaković noun (foolish or silly person)
Spanish
4 entries- alcornoque noun (foolish or silly person)
- bendito noun (foolish or silly person)
- bobo noun (foolish or silly person)
- cenutrio noun (foolish or silly person)
Swedish
4 entries- dumbom noun (foolish or silly person)
- dumhuvud noun (foolish or silly person)
- fjompa noun (foolish or silly person)
- flane noun (foolish or silly person)
Tagalog
1 entries- bobo noun (foolish or silly person)
Sample sentences
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I slept in and missed my scheduled interview. I feel like such a nincompoop.
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The Ship of Fools Fully Fraught and Richly Laden with Asses, Fools, Jack-daws, Ninnihammers, Coxcombs, Slender-wits, Shallowbrains, Paper-Skuls, Simpletons, Nickumpoops, Wiseakers, Dunces, and Blockheads. Declaring their several Natures, Manners, and Constitutions; the occasion why this Ship was built, with the places of their intended Voyage, and a lift of the Officers that bear Command therein [book title].
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Yes, you Nicompoop, you are a pretty Fellow to pleaſe a Woman indeed.
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