Witless

Definition: Witless

Witless

Adjective

1. (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment.

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

Date "witless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Witless

Ignorance

Adjective: ignorant; nescient; unknowing, unaware, unacquainted, unapprised, unapprized, unwitting, unweeting, unconscious; witless, weetless; a stranger to; unconversant.

Imbecility Folly

Adjective: unintelligent, unintellectual, unreasoning; mindless, witless, reasoningless, brainless; halfbaked; having no head; not -bright; inapprehensible.

Crosswords: Witless

I did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

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Books

• The witless men (reference)

• Witless (reference)

• Witty and witless. (c. 15?) London (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• The Live Record: Witless Banter & 25 Mildly Antagonistic Songs About Love [LIVE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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All birds of evil omen there Flood with rich Notes the tainted air, The witless wanderer to snare

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Albanian

pa tru (brainless, headless), 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, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nut, owl, pin head, pumpkin-head, sheep's head, silly, slow witted, softhead, soft-headed, softy, spoony, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏معتوه (batty, cracked, crackpot, crazy, demented, dim witted, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, mentally deranged, off his head, possessed, screwy, sodden, soft-headed, stupid, up the pole), ‏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, nitwit, nonsensical, numskull, ornery, oyster, perverse, pointless, prat, screwball, senseless, sod, stupid, unwise, vacant, wacky, weak, weak-minded, whacky, wood-headed, zany). (various references)

Bulgarian 

глупав (anserine, asinine, blackhearted, blithering, blockish, blunt, brainless, cockscomb, crass, daft, dense, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dozy, fat, fatuous, flat-footed, fool, foolish, footless, footling, goofy, hebetate, inane, inept, irrational, lame brain, lumpish, lunatic, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, off one's nut, piffling, puddingy, puerile, purblind, sappy, senseless, silly, simple, slow witted, stockish, stupid, thick, thick-skulled, thick-witted, tomfool, trumpery, unintelligent, unwise, vacant, vacuous, whacked, wooden-headed), обезумял (berserk, distracted, frenzied, lunatic, mad, wild), малоумен (barmy, cretinous, deficient, feebleminded, half-witted, imbecile, innocent, mooncalf, oafish, simple, soft-headed, soft-witted). (various references)

Czech

nevtipný. (various references)

French

stupide, sotte, dingue (wild). (various references)

German

witzlos (pointless, unfunny, unhumorous). (various references)

Greek 

μωρόσ (crass, driveller, fatuous, food, fool, foolish, goofy, idiotic, moron, ninny, simp, simpleton, spoony, vacuous, zany), χαζόσ (muggins, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, nitwitted, rubberneck, simp, simperer, simpleton, soft-headed, stupid, twit), άνους, άμυαλος (brainless), ανόητοσ (blithering, daft, fatuous, fool, foolish, goofy, idiot, inane, inept, insensate, insipient, knighterrantry, ninny, nitwit, nonsensical, sappy, senseless, silly, slap happy, unwise). (various references)

Hebrew 

חסר �"ע�" (ament, fool, madman, senseless, silly), טפשי (anserine, dim witted, foolish, senseless, silly, stupid, thickheaded). (various references)

Hungarian

unalmas (bald, boring, cut and dried, dry, dull, dusty, groaty, grotty, heavy, humdrum, insipid, languid, muzzy, pokey, prosaic, prosy, repetitious, tedious, tiresome, tiring), szellemtelen, ostoba (asinine, bird brained, blockish, brainless, Daffy, doltish, dry, dumb, dump, dunce, fatuous, feeble minded, goofy, hulking, idiotic, inane, inept, lack-brain, lame brain, loggerheaded, Looby, numb-skull, numskull, oafish, owlish, preposterous, puerile, silly, simple, simple minded, simpleton, slow, sot, stupid, thick-headed, to cut capers, tomfool, wooden-headed). (various references)

Italian

stupido (addled, asinine, blockhead, chump, clot, dumb, fool, foolish, idiot, idiotic, mindless, nitwit, numskull, oafish, silly, stupid, stupide), ottuso (blunt, dense, dolt, dull, fatwitted, logy, muffled, obtuse, pointless, slow, slow witted, stuffy, thick). (various references)

Manx

er beggan cheeayl. (various references)

Pig Latin

itlessway.(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, nitwit, pigeon, pumpkin-head, screwy, silly, simpleton, softhead, softy, spoon, spoony, stock, stupe, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, vacuous, wacky), sem inteligência, imbecil (addled, anile, ass, barmy, dull, dunderhead, fatuous, feather brain, featherbrained, foolish, goofy, gowk, half-witted, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, jackass, loggerhead, moronic, nitwit, nitwitted, oaf, oafish, pumpkin-head, stupe, stupid, twerp, underwit), fraco de espírito (feeble-minded, wanting, weak-minded, weak-spirited), desmiolado (madcap, rattle-brained, rattle-headed). (various references)

Romanian

prostesc (anile, crazy, fatuous, flim-flam, foolish, idiotic, idiotical, idle, insensate, nonsensical, silly, stupid), nesocotit (harum scarum, hasty, ignored, indiscreet, injudicious, scorned, thoughtless, unwise, venturesome), nãtãrãu (buffer, calf, donkey, fool, goofy, jay, sheep, sheepish, simpleton), imbecil (fool, half-witted, idiot, idiotic, idiotical, imbecile, moron, nincompoop, soft-headed, wooden-headed), dus pe gânduri, distrat (absent, absent minded, absent-minded, absent-mindedly, abstracted, abstractedly, distracted, forgetful, inattentive, inattentively, moon-struck, moony, mused, vacant, wool gathering). (various references)

Russian 

безмозглый (addle-brained, brainless). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

bezuman (insane). (various references)

Spanish

tonto (ass, cabbagehead, calvish, clod-poll, crass, crazed, cretin, dimwit, dink, dispensary, dummy, dunderhead, fool, foolish, greaseproof paper, harebrained, idiot, idiotic, idleheaded, jenny ass, lemon, loose, nonsensical, numbhead, pinhead, silly, simple minded, soft, soft-headed, soppy, spoony, stupid, unwise, wall eyed). (various references)

Swedish

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

Turkish

saf (absolute, all, artless, candid, clean, clear, country bumpkin, credulous, deceivable, dewy-eyed, distilled, dupe, elemental, elementary, entire, facile, fine, genuine, greenhorn, gudgeon, guileless, gull, gullible, harmless, homespun, honest, immaculate, ingenuous, innocent, juggins, mere, naïve, pigeon, pristine, pure, pure-minded, rank, raw, real, refined, simple, simple minded, simple simon, simple-hearted, sterling, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblended, uncontaminated, undiluted, unmixed, unsophisticated, unsuspicious, untutored, unworldly), kafasız (addle-brained, addle-pated, duffer, harebrained, headless, light in the head, soft, soft in the head, stupid, tomfool, unsophisticated), düşüncesiz (blind, blindfold, brusque, careless, flighty, freewheeling, gauche, half-baked, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heady, ill-advised, ill-judged, imprudent, impulsive, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, mindless, out of turn, rash, reckless, slapdash, tactless, thoughtless, unadvised, unmindful, unreflecting, unthinking, wanton, without tact), akılsız (buggy, bughouse, emptyheaded, fatuous, feather brain, feather-brained, fool, foolish, goofy, gormless, ill-advised, inexpedient, irrational, mindless, preposterous, unintelligent, unreasoning, unwise, vacant). (various references)

Ukrainian

нерозумний (brute, crack-brained, footling, ill-judged, impolitic, insensate, silly, unreasonable, wacky), безмозкий (brainless). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ngu đần (beef-witted, boeotian, dense, doltish, dull, dully, mutton-headed, nitwitted, stupid), đần độn (anserine, blear-eyed, blockish, boeotian, brutish, chuckle-headed, cock-eyed, doltish, fat-headed, fatuous, fat-witted, feather-brained, feather-headed, feather-pate, feather-pated, muddle-headed, muddy-headed, pigheaded, puddingy, purblind, slow-witted, stupid, thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted, unapprehensive). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "witless": witlessly, witlessness, witlessnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Witless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: webless, witle, wittles. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: islets, istles, sliest, stiles, wisest.

-2 letters: isles, islet, istle, lewis, lists, lweis, silts, sites, slews, slits, stews, sties, stile, tiles, welts, wests, wiles, wilts, wises, wists, wites.

-3 letters: isle, leis, less, lest, lets, lies, list, lite, lits, lwei, seis, sels, sets, sews, silt, site, sits, slew, slit, stew, tels, tews, ties, tile, tils.

+1 letter: twigless, whistles.

+2 letters: blowsiest, leastwise, lewisites, slantwise, swiftlets, swirliest, wellsites, whistlers, wiseliest, witlessly, wristlets.

+3 letters: dishtowels, scrawliest, sprawliest, stairwells, sweetishly, sweltriest, waistlines, weightless, welfarists, westerlies, wrestlings.

+4 letters: liverwursts, wealthiness, wildebeests, wistfulness, witlessness.

+5 letters: sewabilities, swingletrees, switchblades, thistledowns, towardliness, trellisworks, weightlessly, windlestraws.