airhead

noun

Definition of airheadnext
as in idiot
a stupid person I felt like an airhead when I couldn't remember my new neighbor's name in trying to introduce him

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Recent Examples of airhead Tom Hulce is daffy and delicious as the airhead prodigy Mozart, but few of us can identify with that kind of genius. — EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025 Paired alongside Williams and Dunst’s airheads, Ferrell plays a nincompoop Bob Woodward, but the role doesn’t give him much of a chance to cut loose. — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025 Gene Kelly in Singing in the Rain and Fred Astaire in Top Hat were essentially airheads. — Peter Bart, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024

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