half-wit
15
8.9
- noun
- /ˈhæfˌwɪt/
- Offensive
:
idiota
- As for "the boy," he was a plump half-wit.
- half-wit, he said
- talk to that half-wit
Examples
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I like to think that women aren't half-wits and understand the consequences of their actions.
Blog text (4) -
You guys no longer have to know anything, just believe what some angry half-wit concluded for you.
Blog text (23) -
You spent your whole life going around, asking every half-wit you could find: "If I do this, can I avoid this, or will that happen?"
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Now she is cruel, and there are many stupid, foolish, and harmless old men and women, half-wits, and they are very badly hurt by her.
Fiction book (2001) -
I mean, you are... a ridiculous, immature, half-wit moron.
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And then, you know, the half wit's in government didn't listen, didn't listen.
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George remembered him from the churchyard: a simple, dreamy lad, almost a half-wit.
Fiction book (1993) -
The half-wit, Solomon, was sunny-natured most of the time, and Hannah soon got used to his ways.
Fiction book (2000) -
So you're promoting a flagrantly unqualified half-wit to a position of immense importance based purely on nepotism.
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Everyone knew he was a half-wit after he failed to solve the simplest puzzle.
Synonyms
∞
1.2
A person who acts very stupidly, used as an insult
43
8.0
A person who acts silly or seems not very smart
36
7.9
A person who acts silly and not very smart
14
7.7
A person who is not very smart
3
9.9
A rude name for a person who is very silly or not smart
3
9.3
A person who is not very smart
2
8.7
A person who is not very smart
1
2.7
A person who is not intelligent and often makes poor choices
1
9.5
A childish name used to call someone silly
1
9.9
A person someone insults for being slow or having old-fashioned views
1
9.8
A rude word for a person who is very stupid
1
9.9
A person who is not very smart
1
9.9
A person who is silly and not very clever
1
9.9
A person who is very stupid or foolish
A rude name for someone who seems very foolish
A rude name for a person who is slow to understand
Not very quick to understand things
A person who is not very clever and sometimes pretends to be smart
An insulting word for a rude or stupid person
A person who is not very smart
A person who is foolish and lacks common sense
Antonyms
How Intelligent
252
4.9
- US
81
2.7
- Informal
1
5.2
- Offensive
15
8.9
- Offensive
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1.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Half-wit joins half ('part') and wit ('mind' or 'intelligence'), so it paints a picture of someone who has only 'half' their smarts; today it is an offensive word used to call someone stupid.