"dim-bulb" meaning in English

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "intelligent"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Probably a reference to the use of a light bulb in cartoons and comics to indicate that a person has had a bright idea.",
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  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1966 December 23, “Walt Disney: Images of Innocence [obituary]”, in Time, archived from the original on 2009-04-30",
          "text": "In Snow White [and the Seven Dwarfs], [Walt] Disney and his staff met the challenge of creating believable characters. Each of the seven dwarfs, from sober-sided Doc to dim-bulb Dopey, had a distinct personality.",
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          "ref": "1990, Joe Bob Briggs [pseudonym; John Irving Bloom], The Cosmic Wisdom of Joe Bob Briggs, New York, N.Y.: Random House, page 263",
          "text": "Up to now the guy's just a dim-bulb character who likes to dress up in a sailor suit and spoon creme broolay out of a bowl for a living.",
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        {
          "ref": "2007, Chris Jennings Dixon, editor, Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing, Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, page 2",
          "text": "Well, long ago, a man named Aesop met a whole bunch of bossy, silly, funny, annoying, dim-bulb people, and he wanted to do something about it. He decided to write stories about these people, and end each story with a lesson […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 October 27, Alex McLevy, “Making a Killing: The Brief Life and Bloody Death of the Post-Scream Slasher Revival”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2018-03-05",
          "text": "It’s harder to care about someone dying when you actively want them to disappear from the screen. And when the film itself proceeds so straightforwardly, and you know that even [Jennifer Love] Hewitt’s dim-bulb boyfriend (Freddie Prinze Jr.) will survive, much of the fun is lost.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Slow-witted, stupid."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "dim bulb"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "dim"
        },
        {
          "word": "dim-headed"
        },
        {
          "word": "dim-witted"
        },
        {
          "word": "dumb"
        }
      ],
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  "word": "dim-bulb"
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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "intelligent"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "Probably a reference to the use of a light bulb in cartoons and comics to indicate that a person has had a bright idea.",
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          "ref": "1966 December 23, “Walt Disney: Images of Innocence [obituary]”, in Time, archived from the original on 2009-04-30",
          "text": "In Snow White [and the Seven Dwarfs], [Walt] Disney and his staff met the challenge of creating believable characters. Each of the seven dwarfs, from sober-sided Doc to dim-bulb Dopey, had a distinct personality.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Joe Bob Briggs [pseudonym; John Irving Bloom], The Cosmic Wisdom of Joe Bob Briggs, New York, N.Y.: Random House, page 263",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Chris Jennings Dixon, editor, Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing, Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, page 2",
          "text": "Well, long ago, a man named Aesop met a whole bunch of bossy, silly, funny, annoying, dim-bulb people, and he wanted to do something about it. He decided to write stories about these people, and end each story with a lesson […]",
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        },
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          "ref": "2017 October 27, Alex McLevy, “Making a Killing: The Brief Life and Bloody Death of the Post-Scream Slasher Revival”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2018-03-05",
          "text": "It’s harder to care about someone dying when you actively want them to disappear from the screen. And when the film itself proceeds so straightforwardly, and you know that even [Jennifer Love] Hewitt’s dim-bulb boyfriend (Freddie Prinze Jr.) will survive, much of the fun is lost.",
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        {
          "word": "dim"
        },
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