Nitwit

Definition: Nitwit

Nitwit

Noun

1. (informal) a stupid incompetent person.

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

Synonyms: Nitwit

No N as in nincompoop, numbskull, nitwit. And L as in ladder (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

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

Books

• Noodle, Nitwit, Numskull (Silhouette Folktales Series) (reference)

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

Albanian

tutkun (slowcoach, tomfool), trutharë (numskull), leshko (coot, dodo, dupe, gander, goon, goose, greener, greenhorn, gudgeon, gullibility, gullible, innocent, loon, lummox, mooncalf, muggins, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, noddy, noodle, numskull, sap, sap-head, Sawney, simp, simpleton, tom-noddy), budalla (anserine, anserous, asinine, ass, blunderhead, booby, brainless, cabbage-head, chuckle-head, clod, cloddish, clod-poll, cockeyed, daft, dense, Dick, dim witted, dimwit, dumb, dumbbell, fathead, fool, gaby, gaga, goof, goofy, goon, Goosey, gowk, half wit, idiot, idle-headed, imbecile, jobbernowl, jolterhead, josser, juggins, loon, mindless, moke, muff, mutton head, mutton-headed, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, noddy, noodle, numskull, nut, owl, pin head, pumpkin-head, sheep's head, silly, slow witted, softhead, soft-headed, softy, spoony, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, witless). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مغفل (dense, dolt, dullard, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, dupe, fat-witted, fool, foolish, licentious, moronic, mutton-headed, nincompoop, ninny, numskull, pointless, rubbishy, silly, simple, simple minded, simpleton, soft-headed, softy, stupid, thick-headed, weak-minded), ‏أحمق (ass, barmy, berk, bonkers, brutish, childish, chuckle-head, chump, cuckoo, daft, empty, empty headed, fantastic, fat, fathead, fatuous, foolish, footless, goofy, goon, haywire, idiotic, impolitic, imprudent, indiscreet, inept, injudicious, insensate, jerk, lemon, mad, meaningless, nit, nonsensical, numskull, ornery, oyster, perverse, pointless, prat, screwball, senseless, sod, stupid, unwise, vacant, wacky, weak, weak-minded, whacky, witless, wood-headed, zany), ‏شخص تافه (bauble, black sheep, bugger, crumb, deformity, dog, insect, morsel, myrmidon, peanut, pipsqueak, rag, sprat, swab, toad, trash), ‏شخص أحمق (birdbrained, block, bonehead, half wit, nut, sap, silly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

глупак (bird brained, blinker, boeotian, bonehead, boob, booby, calf, chuckle-head, clod, clot, coot, dodo, dotterel, driveler, dummy, fathead, flat, fool, gaby, gawk, goof, goon, gowk, greenhorn, gull, hammerhead, jackass, jobbernowl, lack-brain, lame brain, leather-head, lunkhead, muggins, mutt, mutton head, ninny, noddy, noodle, numskull, nutter, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap, sap-head, schmo, schnook, sheep's head, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, spoon, stupe, stupid, thickhead, tomfool, twit, witling, wittol, zany, zombie). (various references)

Czech

trouba (blockhead, dodo, fool, goof, lemon, numskull, oaf, oven, tube), pitomec (bonehead, chump, clown, dope, idiot, imbecile, jackass, ninny, twit), blbec (idiot, imbecile, jackass, jerk). (various references)

Farsi 

ادم پریشان حواس , ادم کله خشک واحمق . (various references)

French

nigaud (ninny), lourdaud, imbécile, crétin (nit), ballot. (various references)

German

schwachkopf (dimwit, half wit, idiot, imbecile, moron, nit, thickie, wanker, zombie). (various references)

Greek 

βλάκας (ass, bozo, dimwit, fool, idiot), χαζόσ (muggins, nincompoop, ninny, nitwitted, rubberneck, simp, simperer, simpleton, soft-headed, stupid, twit, witless), ηλίθιοσ (booby, clot, cretin, dopey, dull, dumb, fool, gawky, goofy, goon, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, mooncalf, moronic, poky, sap-head, sheepish, sottish, stupid, thick), ανόητοσ (blithering, daft, fatuous, fool, foolish, goofy, idiot, inane, inept, insensate, insipient, knighterrantry, ninny, nonsensical, sappy, senseless, silly, slap happy, unwise, witless). (various references)

Hebrew 

טומטום (moron, nit, twerp, twit). (various references)

Hungarian

tökfilkó (blockhead, blunderhead, cabbage-head, chuckle, dimwit, dolt, dunce, gaby, goof, goon, goop, jobbernowl, jolterhead, loggerhead, loghead, lunkhead, mutt, mutton head, mutton-headed, nincompoop, ninny, noodle, numb-skull, numskull, sap, silly billy, simp, simple sammy, softy, tom-noddy), tökfej (addle-pate, blockhead, chucklehead, chump, dolt, doodle, dullard, dumbo, dummy, lunk, lunkhead, meatball, mooncalf, mooncalves, mutt, muttonhead, mutton-head, nincompoop, ninny, noodle, numb-skull, numskull, pinhead, pudding-head, sap, softy, veg), hólyag (bell, bladder, blister, boil, bubble, cyst, dummy, goof, goop, meatball, pouch), hülye (blithering, bozo, clot, cretin, dead above the ears, Dotty, gaga, goofy, goon, half wit, half-wit, half-witted, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, jake, jay, klutz, moonstruck, moron, moronic, mutt, mutton-head, nerd, nurd, nutter, oafish, sap-head, schmo, shmo, silly, stupid, vacuous, wacko, wart). (various references)

Italian

stupido (addled, asinine, blockhead, chump, clot, dumb, fool, foolish, idiot, idiotic, mindless, numskull, oafish, silly, stupid, stupide, witless), sciocco (addled, booby, daffy, daft, doltish, featherbrain, fool, foolish, goofy, Gotham, inane, Looby, loon, ludicrous, nincompoop, noodle, sap, silly, simper, soppy, spoony, stupid), cretino (cretin, imbecile, stupid). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

愚者 (fool). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぐしゃ (fool). (various references)

Manx

kione shoggyl (blockhead, numbskull), flid (flirt, fly-by-night, jilt, silly person). (various references)

Pig Latin

itwitnay.(various references)

Portuguese

tolo (addle-brained, addled, corny, cuddy, daft, dull, finical, fool, foolish, gaby, goat, gowk, gull, hard-hearted, inept, insane, insensate, looby, loony, mad, madman, naïve, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, pigeon, pumpkin-head, screwy, silly, simpleton, softhead, softy, spoon, spoony, stock, stupe, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, vacuous, wacky, witless), imbecil (addled, anile, ass, barmy, dull, dunderhead, fatuous, feather brain, featherbrained, foolish, goofy, gowk, half-witted, idiot, idiotic, jackass, loggerhead, moronic, nitwitted, oaf, oafish, pumpkin-head, stupe, stupid, twerp, underwit, witless), cretino (cretin, cretinous, dullard, dunce, mooncalf, nitwitted). (various references)

Romanian

tont (addle-brained, blockhead, brain-hampered, chump, dim, dull-witted, dummy, dunderhead, goofy, noodle, oaf, oafish, sap, thick-headed), prost (ass, bad, badly, beef-witted, blinkard, blockhead, blunt, booby, calf, cheap, clumsy, cock eyed, common, dead, dolt, doltish, donkey, dull, dullard, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, flat, fool, foolish, good for nothing, goof, goon, goose, Goosey, gull, harmful, idiot, idiotish, inhospitable, lousy, lubber-head, miserable, nincompoop, ninny, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, numskulled, oaf, oafish, pin head, poor, poorly, silly, simple, simpleton, snipe, soft, soft-headed, sorry, spoony, stupid, thoughtless, unfavorable, unfavourable, wretched, zombie), gãgãuţã (booby, dupe, gander, innocent, ninny, noddy, nut, rook, spoony, sucker). (various references)

Russian 

простофиля (calf, dotterel, dupe, nincompoop, ninny, patsy, Sawney, simp), дурак (berk, blunderhead, bonehead, bone-head, cuddy, dimwit, fool, goof, goose, half-wit, jackass, juggins, lack-brain, log-head, man of Gotham, moke, mutt, mutton-head, ninny, nut, pin-head, pumpkin-head, sap-head, sheep's head, sheep's-head, silly, softy, tomfool, tomnoddy, wise man of Gotham, wooden head). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

glupan (blockhead, bonehead, boob, booby, clod-poll, coot, dimwit, dope, driveler, driveller, dunce, dunderhead, fathead, fat-head, gander, goof, jerk, loon, lout, lug, lummox, lunkhead, mutton head, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, noddy, pin head, pinhead, pumpkin-head, thickhead, tomfool, twit), šamšula (goat, ninny-hammer). (various references)

Spanish

simplón (simpleton). (various references)

Swedish

dumbom (bonehead, dunce, fool, gaby, goof, goon, idiot, innocent, jobbernowl, jolterhead, lack-brain, Looby, loon, ninny, ninny-hammer, poop, pumpkin-head, sap, silly, simp, simple simon, simpleton, stupid, zany). (various references)

Thai

คนโง่ (คำไม่เป็นทางการ) (dodo, donkey, jerk, ninny, numbskull, zombie). (various references)

Turkish

sersem (addle-brained, addle-headed, addle-pated, clod, dizzy, dope, dozy, dull, dullard, foggy, foolish, giddy, gunsel, happy, light-headed, muddleheaded, muzzy, nincompoop, ninny, oaf, oafish, opaque, scatterbrain, scatterbrained, scatty, sheepish, silly, slob, stupid, woozy), kuş beyinli (addle-brain, addle-pate, bird brained, bird witted, birdbrain, dizzy, empty headed, feather brain, feather-brained, harebrained, pinhead, shallow-brained). (various references)

Ukrainian

кретин (cretin, natural), йолоп (banana-head, blunderbuss, boob, calf, caravan, chuckle-head, clod, clot, dimwit, fathead, gawk, loggerhead, mutt, nincompoop, noodle, numskull, poop, saphead, zany), неук (barbarian, ignoramus, illiterate, know-nothing), дурень (ass, blunderhead, bone head, booby, bullhead, changeling, chump, clod, clot, dimwit, dolt, donkey, fool, fop, gander, imbecile, jackass, moke, mutton head, ninny, noddy, noodle, numskull, omadhaun, owl, pinhead, pudding-head, softy, stupe, stupid, tomfool, you imbecile). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người ngu đần (beetle-brain, boeotian, dolt, dullard, log-head, looby, mutton-head, stupid). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "nitwit": nitwits. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Nitwit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: netwic, Newint, Newtoft, niti, Nytim. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: inti, tint, titi, twin, twit.

-3 letters: nit, tin, win, wit.

-4 letters: in, it, ti.

+1 letter: intwist, nitwits, witting.

+2 letters: intwists, twiniest, twinight, twisting, twitting, wittings.

+3 letters: antiwhite, intwisted, lintwhite, twistings, twitching, unwitting, whittling, wintriest, wittiness, wittingly.

+4 letters: entwisting, intertwine, intertwist, intwisting, lintwhites, miswritten, outwaiting, outwitting, outwriting, retwisting, twittering, untwisting, whittlings, winteriest, wintertide, wintertime, zwitterion.

+5 letters: intertwined, intertwines, intertwists, typewriting, unwittingly, wildcatting, wintertides, wintertimes, wittinesses, zwitterions.