dim-witted
adjUK /dɪmˈwɪtəd/
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Derogatory, Idiomatic Being a dimwit; stupid; foolish; simple.
- "Don't fool yourself," I said. "I could have slugged this pair of amateur gorillas any hour of the day or night. I've not done it because you've got nothing against them other than their being a pair of dim-witted nuisances."1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 138:
- Synonyms
- dim-headed, dull-witted
- Derived terms
- dim-wittedly, dim-wittedness
- Related terms
- dim-bulb, dim-sighted, dimwit