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Dim-witted

Definition: Dim-witted

Dim-witted

Adjective

1. Lacking mental capacity and devoid of subtlety.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Dim-witted

Synonyms: half-witted (adj), simple (adj), simple-minded (adj). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Dim-witted

"Dim-witted" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dim-witted" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%8124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Dim-witted

Language Translations for "dim-witted"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

nyomott (depressed, dispirited, muggy, spleenful, to feel slack), nehézfejű (dense headed, doltish, lumpish, muzzy, opaque, pokey, poky, to be slow on the uptake), mesüge. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

血の巡りが悪い (slow to catch on), 血の巡りの悪い (slow to catch on). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ちのめぐりがわるい (slow to catch on), ちのめぐりのわるい (slow to catch on). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

im-wittedday

   

Russian 

  

тупой (blockish, blunt, dense, dim witted, doltish, dug, dull, fat-witted, goofy, gormless, heavy, logy, muddle-headed, obtuse, pig-headed, po-faced, pointless, puddingy, purblind, slow witted, slow-witted, stolid, stupid, thick, timberheaded, timber-headed, wooden-headed), неумный (unintelligent). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

kцrzehin (thick-headed). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Dim-witted

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dimwitted.

Words within the letters "d-d-e-i-i-m-t-t-w"

-3 letters: dimwit, tidied, widdie, witted.

-4 letters: demit, didie, imide, medii, teiid, tided, timed, timid, wited.

-5 letters: died, diet, dime, dite, edit, emit, idem, imid, item, midi, mite, mitt, tide, tied, time, titi, twit, wide, wite.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Dim-witted


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 69 6D 2D 77 69 74 74 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101001 01101101 00101101 01110111 01101001 01110100 01110100 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#105 &#109 &#45 &#119 &#105 &#116 &#116 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 006D 002D 0077 0069 0074 0074 0065 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38757915897586867170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern 		5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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