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- [sloh wit-id]
- /sloʊ ˈwɪt ɪd/
- /ˌsləʊˈwɪt.ɪd/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [sloh wit-id]
- /sloʊ ˈwɪt ɪd/
Definitions of slow-witted word
- adjective slow-witted mentally slow or dull; slow in comprehension and thinking. 1
- adjective slow-witted Someone who is slow-witted is slow to understand things. 0
- adjective slow-witted slow in comprehension; unintelligent 0
- adjective slow-witted having a mind that works slowly and ineffectively; not bright or alert; dull 0
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Origin of slow-witted
First appearance:
before 1565 One of the 32% oldest English words
First recorded in 1565-75
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Parts of speech for Slow-witted
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
slow-witted popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 36% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data about 55% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.
Synonyms for slow-witted
adj slow-witted
- birdbrained — a stupid, foolish, or scatterbrained person.
- boneheaded — a foolish or stupid person; blockhead.
- dense — Something that is dense contains a lot of things or people in a small area.
- dumdum — a silly, stupid person.
- dummiest — a representation or copy of something, as for displaying to indicate appearance: a display of lipstick dummies made of colored plastic.
noun slow-witted
- denseness — having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact: a dense forest; dense population.
- dumbness — lacking intelligence or good judgment; stupid; dull-witted.
- mindlessness — without intelligence; senseless: a mindless creature.
- doltishness — The characteristic of being doltish.
- dopiness — The characteristic of being dopey.
adjective slow-witted
- numbskull — a dull-witted or stupid person; dolt.
- numbskulled — (informal) stupid.
- numskulled — Alternative form of numbskulled.
- yoyo — a spoollike toy consisting of two thick wooden, plastic, or metal disks connected by a dowel pin in the center to which a string is attached, one end being looped around the player's finger so that the toy can be spun out and reeled in by wrist motion.
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