dippy

dip·py

adj \ˈdi-pē\

dip·pi·erdip·pi·est

Definition of DIPPY

: foolish

— dip·pi·ness noun

Examples of DIPPY

1. a movie about a slightly dippy young musician
2. <a mindless movie about a bunch of dippy teenagers>

Origin of DIPPY

origin unknown

First Known Use: 1899

Related to DIPPY

Synonyms: absurd, asinine, balmy, brainless, bubbleheaded, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, foolish, dotty, fatuous, featherheaded, fool, half-baked, harebrained, half-witted, inept, insane, jerky, kooky (also kookie), loony (also looney), lunatic, lunkheaded, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, senseless, silly, simpleminded, stupid, tomfool, unwise, wacky (also whacky), weak-minded, witless, zany

Antonyms: judicious, prudent, sagacious, sage, sane, sapient, sensible, sound, wise

Related Words: airheaded, birdbrained, boobish, brain-dead, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, clueless, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, feebleminded, gormless [chiefly British], idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), mindless, moronic, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, thoughtless, thick, thickheaded, unintelligent, vacuous, witless; fallacious, illogical, invalid, irrational, nonrational, surd, unreasonable, unreasoning, unsound, weak; farcical, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous; notional; buffoonish, clownish; ill-advised, unconsidered, unreasoned

Near Antonyms: brainy, bright, clever, intelligent, smart; logical, rational, reasonable, valid; well-advised

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Rhymes with DIPPY

chippy, drippy, flippy, hippie, hippy, lippy, nippy, quippy, slippy, snippy, tippy, trippy, whippy, yippee, yippie, zippy