witless

Speech parts

1. witless - Adjective

2. witless - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Destitute of wit or understanding; wanting thought; hence, indiscreet; not under the guidance of judgment.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

senseless nitwitted daft simple mad half-baked slow thick dense dull absurd ignorant crazy stupid dim
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Antonyms

sound sapient logical intellectual sharp quick
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Phrases with the word

scared witless scare witless less witless be witless

Anagrams

twissel

Examples

Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols. Marshall McLuhan

One can have a wit, but not a witless. Brandon Sanderson

You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue! Roald Dahl

I would be a drudge now, among the tents, and I would kneel before the warriors, and run from them when they shouted at me. I would be a woman, as women were reckoned in this place, a half-souled, witless animal, created to bear and pleasure men: an afterthought of the god. Tanith Lee

It was Richard Parker who calmed me down. It is the irony of this story that the one who scared me witless to start with was the very same who brought me peace, purpose, I dare say even wholeness. Yann Martel

I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that for a moment I had no mind, no memory. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Close letter words and terms

witkey Witkin witkop Witless Bay witless wonder witlessly