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lightest-witted

lightest-witted is the superlative form of light-witted.

Meaning of light-witted

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...

Questions about lightest-witted

What is lightest-witted the superlative form of?
Lightest-witted is the superlative form of light-witted.

Words near lightest-witted in the dictionary

  1. lightest-fingered
  2. lightest-footed
  3. lightest-handed
  4. lightest-hearted
  5. lightest-skinned
  6. lightest-witted
  7. lightestweight
  8. lighteth
  9. lightface
  10. lightfaced
  11. lightfaces

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