nitwitted

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nitwitted

adjective more nitwitted · most nitwitted

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.
Similar: asinine, balmy, barmy, bedaft, loony, daft, derpy, dim-headed, dim-witted, dopey, dull-headed, dull-witted

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@misc{nitwitted_2026,
  title = {nitwitted},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nitwitted},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}