Dunce and Egghead

Opposite meaning words

Dunce noun - A stupid person.

Usage example: people with the learning disability dyslexia were once simply dismissed as dunces

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Egghead is an antonym for dunce.

Egghead noun - A person with strong intellectual interests.

Usage example: the unlikely marriage between a literary egghead and a Hollywood sex symbol

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Dunce is an antonym for egghead.

resident dunce

resident egghead

Shrunken Organ: Egghead's brain is the size of a bean (wearing a dunce cap).

Source: Toys / The Grossery Gang

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