nitwitted

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adjective

Being like a nitwit; being foolish or stupid.

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Meanings

adjectivenitwitted (comparative more nitwitted, superlative most nitwitted)

comparative more nitwitted · superlative most nitwitted

  1. informalBeing like a nitwit; being foolish or stupid.

    Fifty thousand pounds our esteemed father-in-law was proposing to settle upon that half-baked, nitwitted little slypuss.

    1942 February, Agatha Christie, chapter 12, in The Body in the Library; republished in Starring Miss Marple […], New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1977, →ISBN, page 85

    Synonyms: asinine, balmy, barmy, bedaft, loony, daft, derpy, dim-headed

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveBeing like a nitwit; being foolish or stupid.

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asininebalmybarmybedaftloonydaftderpydim-headeddim-witteddopeydull-headeddull-witteddumbduncicalfatuousfuzzy-headedfuzzy-mindedgauvisongoofyidiotic

More synonyms by meaning

adjective(of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment

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senselesssoft-wittedwitlessstupid
Also see
senselessstupidwitless

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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APA

nitwitted. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nitwitted

MLA

“nitwitted.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nitwitted. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nitwitted,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nitwitted.

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