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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
dingbat is a noun meaning "a silly empty-headed person". It carries one recorded sense.
a silly empty-headed person
“you would be a dingbat even to try it”
“yet here he was with an upper class dingbat who just happened to be married to his sister”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dingbat come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.