doof
German, adjective
doof is spelled D-O-O-F (4 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written German, the 4,427th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Doof is a German adjective meaning “stupid, dumb” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Doof is a different word: “an idiot, someone stupid”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “dumm, beschränkt”.
What does doof mean in English?
adjective
- 1
informalstupid, dumb
- 2
informalboring, annoying
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculinean idiot, someone stupid
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. dumm, beschränkt 2. fade, uninteressant 3. nicht jemandes Vorstellungen entsprechend
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of doof
- doofer masculine nominative singular
- döfer comparative
- dööfer comparative nonstandard
- am doofsten superlative
- am döfsten superlative
- am dööfsten nonstandard superlative
- doofe feminine nominative singular
- doofes neuter nominative singular
- doofen genitive masculine singular
- doofem dative masculine singular
- der doofe definite includes-article masculine
- die doofe definite feminine includes-article
- das doofe definite includes-article neuter
- die doofen definite includes-article nominative
- des doofen definite genitive includes-article
- der doofen definite feminine genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to doof
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is doof in German?
doof appears 17 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).