Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking intelligence or wit; foolish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Destitute of wit or understanding; thoughtless; unreflecting; stupid.
- Not knowing; unconscious.
- Proceeding from thoughtlessness or folly; not under the guidance of judgment; foolish; indiscreet; senseless; silly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Destitute of wit or understanding; wanting thought; hence, indiscreet; not under the guidance of judgment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Destitute of
wit orunderstanding ; wanting thought; hence,indiscreet ; not under the guidance of judgment.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment
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Examples
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His lips trembled briefly, but otherwise, his face never let go of his expression of witless warmth.
Hamlet II: Ophelia’s Revenge David Bergantino 2003
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Fox "News" has long been a fomenter of violent crime, encouraging the tin-foil hat crowd to embark on mercenary missions to take out liberals and other normal, thinking people in waves of violent crimes in churches, woman's health clinics, and pretty much anywhere they find them, and this was true of the so-called witless tea party protests of Obama's tax reform plan.
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I thought it said that Bachmann and Coulter were both called "witless."
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post 2012
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I thought it said that Bachmann and Coulter were both called "witless."
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post 2012
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Before you welcome the show in, you should be warned that our theater critic found it "witless" and "pointless."
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What kind of witless fools trade the lives of others just to say I told you so?
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To see someone who is massively accomplished become someone massively disabled, not in some tragic accident, but because their own body and brain turned on them scares most people witless which is about the kindest thing I can say about them.
Am I a liar? Elizabeth McClung 2008
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Given the natural course of events, most Americans will soon be scared ... 'witless' ... that this woman might eventually have her hand on the button.
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GREENFIELD: Yes, I think that kind of witless conversation that political -- some political folks indulge in every time the president speaks, what does he have to do?
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He pours a kind of witless corruption at the viewer and I can't think of another actor who could have done it with such a personal-seeming flavour.
yarb commented on the word witless
Thanks you for having been what parents should be -
benigner than their witless brood deserves.
- Peter Reading, Post-Dated, from Nothing for Anyone, 1977
June 26, 2008
reesetee commented on the word witless
Heehee.
June 26, 2008