witless
9
6.8
- adjective
- /ˈwɪtləs/
- Offensive
:
idiota
- His decision to invest all his savings in that failing business was truly witless.
- witless fool
- witless old man
All the dead have sunk down into the inner darkness under the Rhine, all witless, all twittering, gibbering, decaying boogeyman.
- All the dead have sunk down into the inner darkness under the Rhine, all witless, all twittering, gibbering, decaying boogeyman.
Examples
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Alienated from his original human nature as a happy, sappy, witless beast, he has not achieved a coherent second nature.
Academic text (1990) -
By following this witless folly, you've endangered everything we work for!
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Trying to figure out how to handle this without making themselves look... even more witless than they already are.
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Also, I'm not as soft and witless as your comment implies.
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No one is willing to lead in this gutless, witless age, either.
Fiction book (1995) -
"You think me a witless fool," he whispered.
Fiction book (1999) -
Diana looked at me like I was the witless half of a half-wit.
Fiction book (1998) -
Casimir studied its witless eyes and wondered how the creature could possibly obey.
Fiction book (1992) -
A man would have to be monumentally witless not to know how things stood between Andry and Pol.
Fiction book (1992) -
In 1955, Rudolf Flesch roused parents to an academic fury when he charged that witless teaching methods explained Why Johnny Can't Read.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
945
3.2
Not able to understand or learn things quickly
138
8.1
Not smart or quick to understand
69
4.2
Foolish and having no clear reason
39
4.1
Not thinking or paying attention before acting
28
6.5
Slow to understand and not quick to learn
24
3.5
Very stupid and not using common sense
19
6.7
Not very smart and likely to act in a silly way
8
3.3
Not smart or slow to understand
6
5.6
Not quick to understand or learn
6
5.3
Not very smart and slow to understand things
3
6.7
Not quick to understand or think
3
6.3
Silly, not very intelligent and not serious
2
7.5
Showing very little sense or intelligence
1
9.3
Not very smart and acting in a foolish way
1
9.9
Someone who is not smart and slow to understand
1
8.8
Not very smart or sensible
1
9.9
Slow to understand things and often acting foolishly
1
9.9
A person who is not very quick to understand things
A person who is slow to understand and easily fooled
Not very smart and likely to make poor choices
Showing little intelligence and only simple ideas
A rude name for a person who is slow to understand
Slow to understand or act because they are tired
Not very quick to understand things
A person who is not smart and is slow to understand things
Antonyms
How Intelligent
949
3.7
507
3.4
573
1.7
∞
1.0
505
1.3
- Offensive
3
6.7
- Offensive
9
6.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Witless breaks into wit 'mind' and -less 'without', so it literally means 'without sense' and that is why we use it for someone foolish or lacking good judgment.