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Synonyms for pinhead


Grammar : Noun
Spell : pin-hed
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɪnˌhɛd



Définition of pinhead

Origin :
  • also pin-head, "head of a pin," 1660s, from pin (n.) + head (n.). Meaning "person of small intelligence" is from 1896.
  • noun stupid person
Example sentences :
  • If Piddie hadn't been a pinhead, he'd had his name on the board of directors years ago.
  • Extract from : « Torchy » by Sewell Ford
  • They range in size from a pinhead to ten or twelve feet in diameter.
  • Extract from : « Zoology: The Science of Animal Life » by Ernest Ingersoll
  • The egg is no bigger than a pinhead, yellow, or cream-coloured.
  • Extract from : « The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work » by Mary Rogers Miller
  • God, you're a pinhead—from the point of view of mere tactics.
  • Extract from : « The Sturdy Oak » by Samuel Merwin, et al.
  • Behind the screen, one of the multiple rows of pinhead tapes shifted slightly as the index was flicked into reading position.
  • Extract from : « Novice » by James H. Schmitz
  • The currents of the river and the ocean have made of it only a pinhead on modern maps.
  • Extract from : « Castles and Chateaux of Old Navarre and the Basque Provinces » by Francis Miltoun
  • The juxtaposition of pinhead black points gives rise to the shaven-beard appearance10 of the mucous membrane.
  • Extract from : « A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II » by Various
  • Its color was a “light pea-green, closely spotted with brown in small specks about the size of a pinhead.”
  • Extract from : « Birds and Nature Vol. 9 No. 1 [January 1901] » by Various
  • Pinhead video-cameras cost less than a good restaurant dinner these days, so they're showing up everywhere.
  • Extract from : « Little Brother » by Cory Doctorow
  • It may well be a word is engraved on the coin, in the same microscopic letters as these on the pinhead.
  • Extract from : « The Diamond Pin » by Carolyn Wells

Antonyms for pinhead

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