Synonyms
- airhead
- birdbrain
- blockhead
- bonehead
- bubblehead
- chowderhead
- chucklehead
- clodpoll
- clodpole
- clot [British]
- cluck
- clunk
- cretin
- cuddy [British dialect]
- cuddie
- deadhead
- dim bulb [slang]
- dimwit
- dip
- dodo
- dolt
- donkey
- doofus [slang]
- dope
- dork [slang]
- dullard
- dum-dum
- dumbbell
- dumbhead
- dummkopf
- dummy
- dunce
- dunderhead
- fathead
- gander
- golem
- goof
- goon
- half-wit
- hammerhead
- hardhead
- idiot
- ignoramus
- imbecile
- jackass
- know-nothing
- knucklehead
- lamebrain
- loggerhead [chiefly dialect]
- loon
- lump
- lunkhead
- meathead
- mome [archaic]
- moron
- mug [chiefly British]
- mutt
- natural
- nimrod [slang]
- nincompoop
- ninny
- ninnyhammer
- nit [chiefly British]
- nitwit
- noddy
- noodle
- numskull
- numbskull
- oaf
- pinhead
- ratbag [chiefly Australian]
- saphead
- schlub [slang]
- shlub
- schnook [slang]
- simpleton
- stock
- stupe
- stupid
- thickhead
- turkey
- woodenhead
- yahoo
- yo-yo
Examples of prat in a Sentence
He acts like a real prat sometimes.
I need competent people for this job, and all they send me are prats.
Recent Examples on the Web
As Ray Winstone might say, what a prat.
—
Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2022
Through it all, however, the gal has retained a sort of grand hauteur, even while prat-falling into a bush.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 24 Mar. 2022
At times Javed’s insistence on reciting lyrics to other people becomes irritating (his girlfriend, a white anti-Thatcher campaigner who did not feature in the book, tells him off for being a prat).
—J.t., The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
Maybe at a Ferrari Club meeting with all the other prats in hats.
—Dan Neil, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2018
So, enter me, a twenty-something who hopes to go from prat to prim over the course of a two-hour lunch, via Meier's social and dining course.
—Danielle Fox, ELLE Decor, 15 Dec. 2017
Chris Vettel is a pricelessly clueless but endearingly cheery aristocratic prat as Hope’s fiance Sir Evelyn Oakleigh, and Ali Lane is hysterically agitated as Hope’s frequently hoodwinked mother.
—Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2017
Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2022
Through it all, however, the gal has retained a sort of grand hauteur, even while prat-falling into a bush.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 24 Mar. 2022
At times Javed’s insistence on reciting lyrics to other people becomes irritating (his girlfriend, a white anti-Thatcher campaigner who did not feature in the book, tells him off for being a prat).
—J.t., The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
Maybe at a Ferrari Club meeting with all the other prats in hats.
—Dan Neil, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2018
So, enter me, a twenty-something who hopes to go from prat to prim over the course of a two-hour lunch, via Meier's social and dining course.
—Danielle Fox, ELLE Decor, 15 Dec. 2017
Chris Vettel is a pricelessly clueless but endearingly cheery aristocratic prat as Hope’s fiance Sir Evelyn Oakleigh, and Ali Lane is hysterically agitated as Hope’s frequently hoodwinked mother.
—Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2017
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“Prat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prat. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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