midwit
/ˈmɪdwɪt/
midwit noun: a person of middling intellect; someone who is neither particularly dull nor particularly smart, especially if they act as though they are smarter than they are.
Noun
midwit (plural midwits)
- A person of middling intellect; someone who is neither particularly dull nor particularly smart, especially if they act as though they are smarter than they are.
- At no point in this process does the midwit have to review information for himself or consider ideas in abstract. […] How then should we not be midwits? Painting with broad strokes: avoid media. Cultivate taste. Grow and train your sense of aesthetics. Recognize beauty. Practice virtue. Pray.2022 January 7, Merri, “Brief Genealogy of the Midwit”, in The Pillarist, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2022
- A true paragon nation captures the midwit, get-the-news-from-Trevor-Noah demographic.2023 February 11, Janan Ganesh, “After Germany’s fall, which is the paragon nation?”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 22
Examples of midwit in a sentence
- Above, the midwit – perhaps a Reddit-browsing amateur trader, or the solid kind of chap who works in wealth management – will go on about hot stocks and market conditions.2023 June 27, Josiah Gogarty, “Beware the midwit trap”, in The New Statesman, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2023:
- It is still a midwit dinner party applause line that such and such a percentage of Americans don't have passports.2025 May 10, Janan Ganesh, “Why travel didn’t bring the world together”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times...
Forms of midwit
| plural | midwits |
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Origin of midwit
From mid- + wit; likely coined in line with nitwit, halfwit, etc.
Words formed from midwit
Questions about midwit
- What does midwit mean?
- Midwit means a person of middling intellect; someone who is neither particularly dull nor particularly smart, especially if they act as though they are smarter than they are.
- How do you use midwit in a sentence?
- Above, the midwit – perhaps a Reddit-browsing amateur trader, or the solid kind of chap who works in wealth management – will go on about hot stocks and market conditions.
- What part of speech is midwit?
- Midwit is a noun.
- How do you pronounce midwit?
- Midwit is pronounced /ˈmɪdwɪt/.
- What is the plural of midwit?
- The plural of midwit is midwits.
Words near midwit in the dictionary
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