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lightwitted

lightwitted is the alternative 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...

Forms of lightwitted

comparativemore lightwitted
superlativemost lightwitted

Questions about lightwitted

What is lightwitted the alternative form of?
Lightwitted is the alternative form of light-witted.

Words near lightwitted in the dictionary

  1. lightweights
  2. lightwell
  3. lightwells
  4. lightwhip
  5. lightwhips
  6. lightwitted
  7. lightwood
  8. lightwood-knot floater
  9. lightwood-knot floaters
  10. lightwoods
  11. lightwork

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