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nitwitted

nitwitted adjective: being like a nitwit; being foolish or stupid.

Adjective

nitwitted (comparative more nitwitted, superlative most nitwitted)

  1. (informal) Being like a nitwit; being foolish or stupid.
    • Fifty thousand pounds our esteemed father-in-law was proposing to settle upon that half-baked, nitwitted little slypuss.1942 February, Agatha Christie, chapter 12, in The Body in the Library; republished in Starring Miss Marple […], New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1977, →ISBN, page 85

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Forms of nitwitted

comparativemore nitwitted
superlativemost nitwitted

Words formed from nitwitted

Questions about nitwitted

What does nitwitted mean?
Nitwitted means being like a nitwit; being foolish or stupid.
What part of speech is nitwitted?
Nitwitted is an adjective.

Words near nitwitted in the dictionary

  1. nitty
  2. nitty gritty
  3. nitty-gritty
  4. nitwit
  5. nitwits
  6. nitwitted
  7. nitwittedly
  8. nitwittedness
  9. nitwittery
  10. nitwittish
  11. Nitz

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