Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Stupid; dull.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Dull of wit; stupid; thick-headed.

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  • adjective Alternative form of thickwitted.

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Examples

  • It2s getting colder the higher we travel, and a big thick-witted centaur is going to be the last one to feel any real emergency in the temperature.

    Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010

  • Triumphing over me still by telling my thick-witted messenger a riddle to pass on to me?

    The Red Queen Philippa Gregory 2010

  • Now stir in Character No. 6, a good-hearted but thick-witted veterinarian (Ben Miles) who longs in vain for Annie, and the three parts of "The Norman Conquests" are off and running.

    Laugh and the World Cries With You 2009

  • I'm just a thick-witted union thug who knows nothing.

    Fifty Percent Steve Hulett 2009

  • Or, at least, cleverer than his opponents, for the royalist officers had been pretty thick-witted.

    The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

  • Alas! even the giddiness attendant on a journey on this Manchester rail-road is not so perilous to the nerves, as that too frequent exercise in the merry-go-round of the ideal world, whereof the tendency to render the fancy confused, and the judgment inert, hath in all ages been noted, not only by the erudite of the earth, but even by many of the thick-witted

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • Or, at least, cleverer than his opponents, for the royalist officers had been pretty thick-witted.

    The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

  • Or, at least, cleverer than his opponents, for the royalist officers had been pretty thick-witted.

    The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

  • Stateless Jews find refuge in the valleys of northwest Italy, thanks to the humanity of supposedly thick-witted peasants a rich, rewarding, and well-researched tale of WWII .....

    A Thread of Grace: Summary and book reviews of A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell. 2005

  • I hate them, the thick-witted fanatics that they are, keeping women like sheep and slaves like pigs.

    Spirit Gate 2006

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