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.
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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
Unlike the original Hilary Banks, who is portrayed as an airhead, the current character (played by Coco Jones) is an intelligent and ambitious social media influencer with entrepreneurial pursuits.
—Giana Levy, refinery29.com, 17 July 2024
On Watch What Happens Live Tuesday, Tisdale was asked about going out for the role of Karen Smith, the lovable airhead eventually played by Amanda Seyfried.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2024
See, most trolls are like Poppy, psychotically happy, boundlessly optimistic airheads who spend their every waking hour hugging, singing, laughing, and tripping the light fantastic under a really big groovy disco ball.
—Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
And ever since, the epithet has become synonymous with a stereotype of deeply annoying airheads from Southern California.
—Clarissa Wei, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2023
A lot of our play plotlines involved making Barbie the scapegoat for everything that went wrong, or casting her as an airhead, or marrying her to Strawberry Shortcake’s evil nemesis, the Purple Pieman.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
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
Unlike the original Hilary Banks, who is portrayed as an airhead, the current character (played by Coco Jones) is an intelligent and ambitious social media influencer with entrepreneurial pursuits.
—Giana Levy, refinery29.com, 17 July 2024
On Watch What Happens Live Tuesday, Tisdale was asked about going out for the role of Karen Smith, the lovable airhead eventually played by Amanda Seyfried.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2024
See, most trolls are like Poppy, psychotically happy, boundlessly optimistic airheads who spend their every waking hour hugging, singing, laughing, and tripping the light fantastic under a really big groovy disco ball.
—Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
And ever since, the epithet has become synonymous with a stereotype of deeply annoying airheads from Southern California.
—Clarissa Wei, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2023
A lot of our play plotlines involved making Barbie the scapegoat for everything that went wrong, or casting her as an airhead, or marrying her to Strawberry Shortcake’s evil nemesis, the Purple Pieman.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
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“Airhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airhead. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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