Necio in english
Foolish
pronunciation: fulɪʃ part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: fulɪʃ part of speech: adjective
In gestures
necio = moron ; cretin ; dull-witted ; asinine ; lemon ; airhead ; airheaded ; bonehead ; duffer ; schmuck ; schmo ; moke ; twerp ; dweeb ; chump ; birdbrained ; birdbrain ; dork ; plonker ; pumpkin head ; twit ; wally ; goof ; goofball ; nitwit ; schlep [schlepp/shlep] ; jackass ; ass ; booby ; half-wit ; gumph ; gubbins ; ninny ; moronic ; sumph ; cluck ; inane ; tomfool ; goon ; goop ; dorky ; dingbat ; nincompoop ; dope.
Example: This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from Feeble minded, Imbecility, and morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.Example: Cretin is a word derived from an 18th century Swiss-French word meaning Christian.Example: An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.Example: This chapter is dedicated to the truly asinine rules -- ones which either defeat their own purpose altogether or are completely devoid of common sense .Example: The court also heard the victim's brother accuse the defendant of physical abuse and of calling him a 'lemon and a retard'.Example: Some people like airheads with fake boobs.Example: She's just an airheaded bimbo, with an endless capacity to push aside unpleasant realities in favor of her more satisfying interests: young men and jewels.Example: The article is entitled 'Field Research for Boneheads: From Naivete to Insight on the Green Tortoise'.Example: Plus, no matter what she did to stop people from picking on her she always ended up being called a duffer.Example: Schmuck entered English as a borrowed word from Yiddish, where it is an obscene term literally meaning a foreskin or head of a penis, and an insult.Example: This team of schmoes is capable of anything.Example: States know better what their own citizens needs are than do the mokes in Washington.Example: He started life as a twerp, then fairly quickly became a jerk and ended up an old sourpuss.Example: For this reason, I will probably not vote in the London mayoral election at all and this doesn't make me a whinging negativist dweeb.Example: Americans are such chumps, because we refuse to see what is going on right in front of our eyes.Example: She has her own birdbrained way of thinking about things, but most of what she says is vaguely prophetic.Example: I am thinking humans can be such birdbrains when it comes to communication.Example: And then we get nongs like Joe here who just cant help himself from being a dork.Example: If she'd been my daughter in fact I'd never have let her go out with an obvious plonker like myself.Example: He loved to tease his daughter by calling her pumpkin head.Example: Democracy's a nice idea in theory, if it wasn't for all the twits.Example: It's written in everyday language that even a wally like me can understand.Example: They're such goofs -- they were pretending like they forgot that the webcam was on.Example: Mom doesn't want to be boss, but she has to because dad's such a goofball.Example: The very idea that any voter would take such nitwits at all seriously is the real horror story.Example: I wonder why she puts up with him, he's such a schlep!.Example: Well, maybe if you hadn't been such a jackass I wouldn't make fun of you.Example: Maybe they have it in for him because he's such an ass.Example: Why, one wonders, was such a booby entrusted with the fate of the British university system?.Example: Experts confirmed this week that the U.S. populace appears to have fallen under the spell of yet another pink-faced half-wit.Example: But I never know whether to believe Clare, she's such a gumph.Example: At some point along the way my camera died because I am such a gubbins I didn't charge my battery.Example: It's not my fault that the ninnies you hired were such yellow-bellies!.Example: We need someone equally as empty-headed and vapidly moronic as Elisabeth Hasselbeck to replace her.Example: 'Because he was just a sumph,' answered Gavinia, scornfully.Example: I promise to be a devoted husband and never give you cause to regret marrying such a cluck.Example: There is perhaps no greater pleasure than having inane and silly conversations that come from nowhere and go nowhere.Example: Your mate is some kind of epic tomfool to imprison himself in his own vehicle.Example: Only a country as warped as America could spawn such a goon.Example: If he hadn't been such a goop he wouldn't have reported the matter to the police.Example: If you are a dork and revel in the fact, you will want to know what clothing is dorky, so you can wear it.Example: Leave her alone, she's such a dingbat, things would only get worse trying to make sense out of anything she says.Example: This collection of videos pays tribute to nincompoops, deadheads and simps: people who walk into sliding glass doors and out of public restrooms with toilet paper trailing from one of their shoes.Example: They made fun of her, partly because she's such a dope and partly because she had a limp and a speech impediment.more:
» como un necio = stupidly .
Example: Intelligent individuals often think that they cannot behave stupidly, but that is precisely what leads them down the garden path.