witless

[wit-lis]

adjective

1. lacking wit or intelligence; stupid; foolish.

witless

/ ˈwɪtlɪs /

adjective

1. lacking wit, intelligence, or sense; stupid

Other Word Forms

• witlessly adverb
• witlessness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of witless¹

before 1000; Middle English; Old English witlēas. See wit ¹, -less

Example Sentences

Some descriptions of the “My Humps” cover from male critics: not funny, smug, witless, self-conscious, pop music cannibalism, dreadful and completely missing the point.

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I’m not talking about crazy uncles who ruin your Thanksgiving dinner; they’ve been crude and witless since the time you were a little kid who avoided them.

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His denouement arrives when he accidentally tells his audience over a hot mic that they’re a bunch of witless, contemptible rubes; they turn on him and his popularity evaporates.

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Rather than preserving and building on what’s best in our civic tradition, as their practitioners might imagine, they’ve become witless handmaids in its ongoing destruction, which could well come to fruition this November.

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She may have run around in tight shirts and booty shorts, but the implication was always that she was tied down young and molded into her husband's witless helpmeet.

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Related Words

• dumb 
• half-baked 
• kooky 
• moronic 
• wacky 
• zany