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dull-witted

dull-witted adjective: having a dull, blunt wit or mind; unintelligent.

Adjective

dull-witted (comparative more dull-witted, superlative most dull-witted)

  1. Having a dull, blunt wit or mind; unintelligent.
    • The second species to join the Citadel, the salarians are warm-blooded amphibians with a hyperactive metabolism. Salarians think fast, talk fast, and move fast. To salarians, other species seem sluggish and dull-witted. Unfortunately, their metabolic speed leaves them with a relatively short...2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Salarians Codex entry

dull-witted meaning in Sanskrit

dull-witted in Sanskrit

dull-witted, silly, stupid, foolish
मन्द manda

Synonyms of dull-witted

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Antonyms

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Forms of dull-witted

comparativemore dull-witted
superlativemost dull-witted

Origin of dull-witted

From dull + witted.

Words formed from dull-witted

Questions about dull-witted

What does dull-witted mean?
Dull-witted means having a dull, blunt wit or mind; unintelligent.
What is dull-witted in Sanskrit?
Dull-witted in Sanskrit is मन्द (manda). See Dull-witted meaning in Sanskrit.
What part of speech is dull-witted?
Dull-witted is an adjective.

Words near dull-witted in the dictionary

  1. dull as ditchwater
  2. dull fish
  3. dull fishes
  4. dull-headed
  5. dull-minded
  6. dull-witted
  7. dulla
  8. dullable
  9. dullaghan
  10. dullaghans
  11. dullahan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dull-witted (page history and authors); मन्द (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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