Half-witted

Definitions: Half-witted

Half-witted

Adjective

1. Lacking mental capacity and devoid of subtlety.

2. Mentally deficient.

Date "half-witted" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Synonyms: Half-witted

Synonyms: dim-witted (adj), feebleminded (adj), simple (adj), simple-minded (adj), slow-witted (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Half-witted

English words defined with "half-witted": Half-cracked ♦ Underwitted. (references)

Specialty definitions using "half-witted": Barnaby Rudge ♦ Cousin Betsy ♦ Goose Gibbie ♦ Rudge. (references)

Etymologies containing "half-witted": Underwitted. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

Why you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking... (Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan.)

How much would you charge me to call you a half-witted horse's neck? (On Again Off Again; writing credit: Nat Perrin; Benny Rubin)

I can't make out whether you're a bloody madman or just half-witted. (Lawrence of Arabia; writing credit: T.E. Lawrence; Robert Bolt)

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

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	Cackle; chortle; chuckle; guffaw; hee-haw; snicker; snigger; tehee; titter; twitter; absurd; asinine; brainless; cockamamie; crazy; crazy; daffy; daft; dingy; dippy; doltish; dotty; fantastic; fatuous; feebleminded; half-baked; half-witted; harebrained; i.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Half-witted" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Half-witted" is used about 17 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	17	85,106

Language		Translations for "half-witted"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mendjeshkurtër, gjysmak (half). (various references)

Arabic		‏معاق عقليا (half wit), ‏غر (artless, calf's, callow, child, decoy, inexperienced, naive, raw, rude, stranger, unskilled, young), ‏أبله (asinine, ass, brainless, coot, cuckoo, daw, dense, dim witted, dullard, fatuous, feeble minded, gaga, gawky, goofy, idiotic, imbecile, lemon, mad, patsy, screwed, sheepish, silly, sod, sodden, softy, soppy, stick in the mud, stupid, vacant, vacuous, wood-headed). (various references)

Bulgarian		слабоумен (feebleminded, imbecile, moron, nitwitted, weak-headed, weak-minded), малоумен (barmy, cretinous, deficient, feebleminded, imbecile, innocent, mooncalf, oafish, simple, soft-headed, soft-witted, witless). (various references)

Czech		hloupý (awkward, brainless, cretinous, daft, dull, empty headed, fatuous, fat-witted, foolish, inane, lame brain, logy, mutton-headed, silly, soft-brained, spoony, stupid, thick, thickskulled). (various references)

French		sot, idiot (half wit, halfwitted). (various references)

German		sachwachsinnig. (various references)

Hungarian		hülye (blithering, bozo, clot, cretin, dead above the ears, Dotty, gaga, goofy, goon, half wit, half-wit, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, jake, jay, klutz, moonstruck, moron, moronic, mutt, mutton-head, nerd, nitwit, nurd, nutter, oafish, sap-head, schmo, shmo, silly, stupid, vacuous, wacko, wart). (various references)

Manx		moal-hushtagh (fool, idiot, idiotic, imbecile), meecheeayllagh (absurd, idiot, imbecile, mad, nonsensical, silly, simple, unadvised). (various references)

Pig Latin		alf-wittedhay.(various references)

Portuguese		senil (age-worn, senile), imbecil (addled, anile, ass, asshole, barmy, dull, dune, fauces, feather brain, feathering, foolish, goon, gowk, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, jackboot, loggerhead, morose, nitwit, nitwitted, oaf, oak, pumpkin-head, stupe, stupid, twerp, underwit, witless), débil mental (moron). (various references)

Romanian		imbecil (fool, idiot, idiotic, idiotical, imbecile, moron, nincompoop, soft-headed, witless, wooden-headed), arierat (backward, half wit, moron). (various references)

Russian		слабоумный (anile, crack-brained, cretinous, daft, feebleminded, feeble-minded, half wit, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, mentally deficient, moron, simpleminded, simple-minded, underwit, weak-headed, weak-minded, witless). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		budalast (addle-brained, addle-pate, cock eyed, cockeye, daffy, dippy, dopey, dopy, foolish, idleheaded, infatuated, nitwitted). (various references)

Spanish		sietemesino (premature, undersized), imbécil (anile, dimwit, dolt, fathead, feeble minded, fool, idiotic, imbecile, mindless, moronic, prat, silly, stupid, twit, wrong, you imbecile), idiota (asinine, berk, boy, fool, idiot, idiotic, moron, mutton-headed, ridiculous, stupid, stupid person), bobo (asinine, boob, booby, crazy, cuckoo gurnard, daft, dolt, dumbbell, dunce, fool, foolish, gawk, goof, half wit, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, juggins, lemon, loony, loose, lummox, mug, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, noddy, noodle, numbhead, oafish, red gurnard, sap, saphead, silly, simple simon, soft-headed, soldier, soppy, stupid, stupide, sucker, wet, yo-yo). (various references)

Swedish		sinnessvag (feeble minded), dum (addled, bird brained, blithering, crass, daft, dense, doltish, dopey, dopy, dumb, empty headed, fatuous, fool, foolish, goofy, idiotic, idle-headed, insensate, lumpish, nitwitted, oafish, opaque, phoney, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, rattle-pated, sappy, silly, stupid, witless). (various references)

Turkish		yarım akıllı, dangalak (bonehead, bone-headed, boob, bumpkin, crass), aptal (bird brained, birdbrain, booby, cretin, cuckoo, daft, Dotty, drag, dumb, dumb bell, dummy, dunce, fathead, fat-head, fat-headed, fatuous, feeble minded, fool, foolish, gaga, goofy, gormless, half wit, harebrained, idiot, idiotic, inane, innocent, lummox, oafish, silly, simp, softhead, softy, stupid, thickheaded, tomfool, twerp, twit), ahmak (addled, ass, blockhead, boob, bumpkin, cabbagehead, chucklehead, chumpish, clot, country bumpkin, crass, cretin, deadly dull, dimwitted, dolt, doltish, dreary, dullish, dumb bell, dunderhead, dunderheaded, fathead, fool, foolish, gander, gawk, gawky, goat, goof, goose, greenhorn, Gubbins, half wit, hayseed, idiot, jackass, jerk, josser, kookaburra, light in the head, loon, lummox, lump, muggins, mutt, mutton head, noddy, numskull, prune, pudding-head, sap, saphead, sappy, schlepper, simp, soft, stupid, twerp). (various references)

Ukranian		слабоумний (anile, fatuous, weak-minded). (various references)

Vietnamese		ngốc nghếch (dunderheaded, fatuous, fat-witted, half-baked, sap-headed, sappy, slap-happy), khờ dại (idiotic, idiotical, ill-advised, ill-judged, imbecile, insipient, lubberly, shiftless, sillily, spoonily). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "half-witted" (pronounced 'Half"-wit`ted'): Absinthiated, Acetated, Aculeated, Adfiliated, Adnubilated, Affectionated, After-witted, Aluminated, Alveated, Ammoniated, Annodated, Anserated, Antimoniated, Antiquated, Aquilated, Ariled, Arillate, Arllated, Asteriated, Beef-witted, Bird-witted, Blunt-witted, Brecciated, Calceated, Calculated, Camisated, Cancellated, Cannulated, Carbonated, Casemated, Castellated, Cellulated, Cinque-spotted, Clavellated, Contourniated, Convoluted, Cravatted, Decucuminated, Dentilated, Disconsolated, Dull-witted, Eye-spotted, Ferruginated, Fibrillated, Figurated, Flammulated, Floriated, Fluorated, Folliculated, Foraminated, Foveolated, hyphenated, Inanimated, Inarticulated, Incastellated, Incavated, Inclavated, Incommunicated, Incultivated, Indeliberated, Infabricated, Intaminated, Interlaminated, Interminated, Intolerated, Intumulated, Invertebrated, Iridiated, Irisated, Jasperated, Labiated, Lean-witted, Machicolated, Maculated, Mamillated, Marginated, Maritated, methylated, Misappreciated, Monociliated, Muriated, nebulated, Nonnucleated, Nucleated, Nucleolated, Octoradiated, Opiated, Opinionated, Ossiculated, Oxidulated, Pandiculated, Patibulated, Pinnulated, Pock-pitted, Preconsolidated, Pulmonated, Putrifacted, Quick-witted, Ready-witted, Rejuvenated, Resupinated, Sacculated, Sagittated, Self-annihilated, self-educated, Self-regulated, Semiindurated, Semioxygenated, Serricated, Sharp-witted, Siderated, Sigillated, Silicated, Siphunculated, slow-witted, Sodden-witted, Stibiated, Stiriated, Strangulated, Superacidulated, Suturated, Tarantulated, Tartarated, Tartrated, trabeated, Trifasciated, Trimaculated, Tubulated, Unappropriated, Undersaturated, Underwitted, undifferentiated, Unicarinated, Uninucleated, Uniradiated, Unliquidated, Unoperculated, Unoriginated, unsaturated, Unvitiated, vacuolated. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-h-i-l-t-t-w"
	-2 letters: whittled.
	-3 letters: faithed, flatted, flitted, twelfth, wattled, whittle.
	-4 letters: afield, awhile, daleth, dawtie, detail, dilate, failed, fatted, fetial, fitted, flawed, flited, hafted, hailed, halide, halite, halted, hatted, hilted, lathed, lifted, tailed, thawed, tilted, tithed, titled, wafted, waifed, wailed, waited, wattle, wealth, whaled, whiled, whited, wilted, withal, withed, witted.
	-5 letters: ailed, atilt, dealt, death, defat, delft, delta, dwelt, faith, fated, felid, fetal, fetid, field, filed, filet, filth, flied, flite, haled, halid, hated, hawed, ideal, laith, lated, lathe, lathi, latte, lawed, lithe, tawed, tawie, telia, theft, theta, thief, tidal, tilde, tiled, tilth, tithe, title, waled, weald, whale, wheal, wheat, while, white, width, wield, wifed, wiled, wited, withe.
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