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witless

[ wit-lis ]

adjective

  1. lacking wit or intelligence; stupid; foolish.


witless

/ ˈɪٱɪ /

adjective

  1. lacking wit, intelligence, or sense; stupid
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈɾٱ, adverb
  • ˈɾٱԱ, noun
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Other Word Forms

  • ɾl· adverb
  • ɾl·Ա noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of witless1

before 1000; Middle English; Old English ɾٱŧ. See wit 1, -less
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Some descriptions of the “My Humps” cover from male critics: not funny, smug, witless, self-conscious, pop music cannibalism, dreadful and completely missing the point.

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I’m not talking about crazy uncles who ruin your Thanksgiving dinner; they’ve been crude and witless since the time you were a little kid who avoided them.

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His denouement arrives when he accidentally tells his audience over a hot mic that they’re a bunch of witless, contemptible rubes; they turn on him and his popularity evaporates.

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Reactionary centrism and false balance have created their own fantasyland: Rather than preserving and building on what’s best in our civic tradition, as their practitioners imagine, they’ve become witless handmaids in its ongoing destruction.

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She may have run around in tight shirts and booty shorts, but the implication was always that she was tied down young and molded into her husband's witless helpmeet.

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