Word Meanings - THICK-HEADED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a thick skull; stupid.

Related words: (words related to THICK-HEADED)

• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• THICK-SKINNED
  Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.
• THICKNESS
  The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
• THICK-WINDED
  Affected with thick wind.
• THICKBILL
  The bullfinch.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• THICK-SKULLED
  Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.
• STUPIDITY
  1. The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness. 2. Stupor; astonishment; stupefaction. A stupidity Past admiration strikes me, joined with fear. Chapman.
• SKULLFISH
  A whaler's name for a whale more than two years old.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• THICKSET
  1. Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge. Dryden. 2. Having a short, thick body; stout.
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• HAVIOR
  Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• DRAWSHAVE
  See KNIFE
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.
• NUMSKULL
  A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow. They have talked like numskulls. Arbuthnot.