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light-witted

Syllables: light-wit·ted

light-witted adjective: having a feeble or weak intellect.

Adjective

light-witted (comparative lighter-witted or more light-witted, superlative lightest-witted or most light-witted)

  1. Having a feeble or weak intellect.
    • When the Maior of the Citie, the two Dukes, and the two chiefe Juſtices, were ſet in Guyldhall for the performance of their commiſſion, and began to call the empanels for the enquirie, as the vſe and other is, diuers light witted, and leſſe brayned perſons of the citie, priuely armed them, and by...1569, Richard Grafton, “Henrye the Sixt”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande […], volume II, London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye...

Forms of light-witted

comparativelighter-witted
comparativemore light-witted
superlativelightest-witted
superlativemost light-witted
alternative formlightwitted

Origin of light-witted

From Middle English light-witted, from light (adjective) + witted (“having intelligence or understanding”, adjective), from the noun wit. See more at light, wit, -ed.

Questions about light-witted

What does light-witted mean?
Light-witted means having a feeble or weak intellect.
What part of speech is light-witted?
Light-witted is an adjective.

Words near light-witted in the dictionary

  1. light-up
  2. light-water
  3. light-weight
  4. light-weights
  5. light-winged
  6. light-witted
  7. light-year
  8. light-years
  9. lightable
  10. lightbar
  11. lightbars

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