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half-witted

half-witted adjective: having low intelligence.

Adjective

half-witted (not comparable)

  1. Having low intelligence.
    • "These girls were a little queer, to be sure, almost half-witted, but that came from their having seen fairies," he added, with an indignant look at the squire.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 264

half-witted meaning in Malayalam and Tagalog

half-witted in Malayalam

മന്ദബുദ്ധിയായ, വികലമതിയായ, അരക്കിറുക്കനായ

half-witted in Tagalog

having a low intelligence
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Synonyms of half-witted

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Origin of half-witted

From half- + witted.

Words formed from half-witted

Questions about half-witted

What does half-witted mean?
Half-witted means having low intelligence.
What is half-witted in Malayalam?
Half-witted in Malayalam is മന്ദബുദ്ധിയായ, വികലമതിയായ, അരക്കിറുക്കനായ. See Half-witted meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is half-witted?
Half-witted is an adjective.

Words near half-witted in the dictionary

  1. half-Windsors
  2. half-wit
  3. half-witch
  4. half-witches
  5. half-wits
  6. half-witted
  7. half-wittedly
  8. half-wizard
  9. half-wizards
  10. half-world
  11. half-worlds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: half-witted (page history and authors); half-witted (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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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