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Definition of Dopey
1. Adjective. Having or revealing stupidity. "Some fool idea about rewriting authors' books"
Language type: Colloquialism
Similar to: Stupid
Derivative terms: Dope, Dope, Foolishness, Goose, Goose, Jerk
Definition of Dopey
1. a. Affected by "dope"; esp., sluggish or dull as though under the influence of a narcotic.
Definition of Dopey
1. Adjective. Stupid, silly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dopey
1. lethargic; stupid [adj DOPIER, DOPIEST] : DOPILY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dopey
Literary usage of Dopey
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1899)
"Neither does she intend to be an old maid— "They say if you're an old maid you
go daffy or get dopey or something," says Tonie. "Good Godfrey! ..."
2. The Show Girl and Her Friends by Roy Larcom McCardell (1904)
"dopey McKnight Has Presentiments Say, Do You Know That When Your Cigarette ...
"dopey McKnight says that it's a sure sign that something's going to come up ..."
3. Little Stories from the Screen by William Addison Lathrop (1917)
"Thursday night came, and with it the final arrangements between dopey Louie and the
... dopey Louie had taken just one sniff too many, and because of this, ..."
4. Gunner Depew by Albert N. Depew (1918)
"he only grinned and looked dopey, as usual. Then I came to, and expected to get
a call down from the ... And old dopey Brown just stood there and grinned. ..."
5. Therapeutic Gazette (1916)
"tient to bring him to the anesthetizing room dopey and flighty. For some time
after the writer had finally rejected scopolamine and morphine before a ..."
6. A Minimum Course in Rhetoric by Henry Copp Edgar (1922)
"dopey is slang for drowsy, dull. Wrong: "I took some dope for my headache;—he
was doped and robbed in a little restaurant near the docks;—he was betting on ..."
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