Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having wit or intellectual comprehension. Often used in combination.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having wit or understanding: commonly used in compounds, as quick-witted, slow- witted, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having (such) a wit or understanding.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having a specified form of
wit (intellectual ability) - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
wit .
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Examples
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A third is the application of learning according unto the propriety of the wits; for there is no defect in the faculties intellectual, but seemeth to have a proper cure contained in some studies: as, for example, if a child be bird-witted, that is, hath not the faculty of attention, the mathematics giveth a remedy thereunto; for in them, if the wit be caught away but a moment, one is new to begin.
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Englishmen think him half-witted, which is exactly what he intends them to think.
John Bull's Other Island George Bernard Shaw 1903
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A third is the application of learning according unto the propriety of the wits; for there is no defect in the faculties intellectual, but seemeth to have a proper cure contained in some studies: as, for example, if a child be bird-witted, that is, hath not the faculty of attention, the mathematics giveth a remedy thereunto; for in them, if the wit be caught away but a moment, one is new to begin.
The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1593
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Sadly, the more they yell and scream at the bought and paid for meetings, the more the dim-witted fools will think they represent the majority of Americans.
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Coulter, and all these other dim witted women who think they are Presidentialmaterial.
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Sagal, Carl Kassell, Decatur's own Roy Blount Jr, Amy Dickinson, and Charlie Pierce were as quick witted and entertaining as any regular listener would expect.
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Things will get better when the Republican Party stops being obstructionist and kicks all the half-witted extreme right-wingers out of its party.
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If that many Democrats are too apathetic to go to the polls, and enough people are so dim-witted that they can see some kind of rational thinking in the Republican contenders, then this country will slide into a backward, theocratic society with no middle class and a few hundred thousand billionaires calling the shots.
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Maybe he wants to get it right, get all the information and not go off half witted like our previous president did.
CNN Poll: Is Obama taking too long on Afghanistan decision? 2009
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I'm proud of him, the old dim witted, sleep at the wheel, got it handed to him by a boring W, Joe is gone now a new sleepy Joe has appeared.
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