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
Elle is a bright pink fish out of water, overlooked and made fun of by her intellectual peers in flannel shirts and dark sweaters, who see her as a ditzy airhead beneath them.
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Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
1 July 2026
Below are the best museums in Los Angeles, to prove this is not city of airheads.
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Maxwell Williams,
Condé Nast Traveler,
9 June 2026
The original, penned by Robin Schiff and directed by David Mirkin, cast Sorvino and Kudrow as Romy and Michele, two inseparable airheads who hit the road to attend their 10th high school reunion with a plan to lie about their successful careers to impress their classmates.
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Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
8 June 2026
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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Devan Coggan,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Mar. 2026
Stereotypes about airheads in athleisure and ambitions of fame and fortune are each a form of fantasy.
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Alison Herman,
Variety,
30 Oct. 2025
Her Ashley is the movie’s fourth and fifth wheel, dismissed as both a perfidious troublemaker and a New Age airhead—a life coach in need of a wife coach.
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Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
22 Aug. 2025
The seven Beach Party films feature airheads enjoying sandy weekend fun, no teachers or parents in sight—though an anthropologist on the sidelines scrutinizes youthful mating habits through a telescope.
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Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
6 June 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.
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Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2025
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
1 July 2026
Below are the best museums in Los Angeles, to prove this is not city of airheads.
—
Maxwell Williams,
Condé Nast Traveler,
9 June 2026
The original, penned by Robin Schiff and directed by David Mirkin, cast Sorvino and Kudrow as Romy and Michele, two inseparable airheads who hit the road to attend their 10th high school reunion with a plan to lie about their successful careers to impress their classmates.
—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
8 June 2026
Tom Hulce is daffy and delicious as the airhead prodigy Mozart, but few of us can identify with that kind of genius.
—
Devan Coggan,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Mar. 2026
Stereotypes about airheads in athleisure and ambitions of fame and fortune are each a form of fantasy.
—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
30 Oct. 2025
Her Ashley is the movie’s fourth and fifth wheel, dismissed as both a perfidious troublemaker and a New Age airhead—a life coach in need of a wife coach.
—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
22 Aug. 2025
The seven Beach Party films feature airheads enjoying sandy weekend fun, no teachers or parents in sight—though an anthropologist on the sidelines scrutinizes youthful mating habits through a telescope.
—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
6 June 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
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“Airhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airhead. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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