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[ adjective ] stupid and confused; used especially of persons

Examples

"blathering like the addlepated nincompoop that you are" "a confused puddingheaded, muddleheaded fellow"- Isaac Sterne

Used in print

(Chicago Daily Tribune...)

His addle-brained knight-errant , self appointed to the ridiculous position in an age when armor had already been relegated to museums and the chivalrous code of knight-errantry had become a joke , is , as Cervantes no_doubt intended , a gaunt but gracious symbol of good , moving soberly and sincerely in a world of cynics , hypocrites and rogues .

Related terms

confused

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