variants
or less commonly dopy
dopier; dopiest
dopiness
noun
Synonyms
- airheaded
- birdbrained
- bonehead
- boneheaded
- brain-dead
- brainless
- bubbleheaded
- chuckleheaded
- dense
- dim
- dim-witted
- doltish
- dorky [slang]
- dull
- dumb
- dunderheaded
- empty-headed
- fatuous
- gormless [chiefly British]
- half-witted
- knuckleheaded
- lamebrain
- lamebrained
- lunkheaded
- mindless
- oafish
- obtuse
- opaque
- pinheaded
- senseless
- simple
- slow
- slow-witted
- soft
- softheaded
- stupid
- thick
- thick-witted
- thickheaded
- unintelligent
- unsmart
- vacuous
- weak-minded
- witless
Examples of dopey in a Sentence
I'm still a little dopey from the painkillers.
After being up all night I was pretty dopey at work.
Recent Examples on the Web
In what would probably have been the Jim Carrey role back in the day, the always likeable Cena appears to be having a blast as a big, dopey screw-up who gets an unlikely shot at redemption via his new identity.
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
His industry cred thus established, Reilly turned to looser, more comedic projects in the mid-2000s like Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), which snagged him another Golden Golden nom and led to his casting as dopey Dale Doback in Step Brothers.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 25 July 2023
The scenes that include Mohamed, brilliantly embodied in all his braggadocio and humiliation by Salim Daw, and Dodi, his doe-eyed, dopey son, are among the season’s most riveting.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2023
The men are dopey and destructive; the women clever and thwarted, with all the good lines and the truly depressing fates.
—Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
His industry cred thus established, Reilly turned to looser, more comedic projects in the mid-2000s like Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), which snagged him another Golden Golden nom and led to his casting as dopey Dale Doback in Step Brothers.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 25 July 2023
The scenes that include Mohamed, brilliantly embodied in all his braggadocio and humiliation by Salim Daw, and Dodi, his doe-eyed, dopey son, are among the season’s most riveting.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2023
The men are dopey and destructive; the women clever and thwarted, with all the good lines and the truly depressing fates.
—Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
See all Example Sentences for dopey
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“Dopey.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dopey. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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