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Definition of dim-witted in English: dim-wittedadjectiveˌdɪmˈwɪtɪd informal Stupid or silly. Example sentencesExamples - Being the slightly dimwitted mutt that he is, Jake runs up to the truck, only to be caged himself.
- They deliver nonsensical presentations to self-important dim-witted businessmen to hilarious results.
- A crime wave has struck the city, perpetuated by a gang of three dimwitted crooks.
- All your current friends are making you feel stupid, dimwitted, and otherwise incompetent.
- Certainly, he could have applied his charms to some rich widow or dim-witted heiress long ago.
- Unfortunately, the advertiser didn't count on dim-witted viewers.
- Can any dimwitted, chain-smoking nurse do it in a matter of seconds?
- Invariably, he is the gracious, dimwitted butt of the jokes.
- The truth is that I have become lazy and dim-witted.
- His is a world of beggars and pimps, struggling families and dimwitted peasants.
- Some of you may suppose that this is some kind of dimwitted Swiftian satire.
- When I heard him speak to a truck driver he spoke in a dim-witted sort of way.
- Widely regarded as a rather dimwitted Uncle Tom, Louis comes off quite differently in this book.
- Why go if you're just going to be treated like a dimwitted fool?
- George is small and quick; Lennie is huge with superhuman strength but with the brains of a dim-witted child.
- In order to make money, I acted dim-witted.
- The dim-witted zealots in his cabinet are even more preposterous than he is.
- The public are treated like they are too dimwitted to participate in such a debate.
- Stage a reunion with a former flame and persuade him that you're not the dimwitted blond you once were.
- When he was running for the job, they described him as an amiable but uncurious and dimwitted scion.
Synonyms stupid, unintelligent, ignorant, dense, brainless, mindless, foolish, dull-witted, dull, slow-witted, witless, slow, dunce-like, simple-minded, empty-headed, vacuous, vapid, half-witted, idiotic, moronic, imbecilic, imbecile, obtuse, doltish
Derivativesadverb informal The figures are placed in situations that leave them at best dim-wittedly perplexed, at worst in comic-book peril - endangered by a motley collection of cooking utensils, buckets, bear traps, electric fans, chain saws, trophies, and water hoses. Example sentencesExamples - Somewhat dim-wittedly, I agreed, completely oblivious to the fact I had just invited a solicitor into my house.
- It took some time to sink in, and I stood dim-wittedly in the heavy rain staring at Charles whose expression grew increasingly perplexed when I didn't get in right away.
- It's also rather dim-wittedly plotted and outlandishly self-indulgent - although neither of those flaws is significant enough to outweigh his gorgeous visual achievement.
- But all too often it spins the very worst of that attempt, becoming not only pretentious, but dim-wittedly pretentious.
noun informal They were popularly derided for their congenital dim-wittedness, which here furnishes an appropriate intellectual counterpart to the social standing of the ex-slave Sarmentus. Example sentencesExamples - Frustrated by her friend's dim-wittedness and by the community's obdurate Presbyterian mentality, she rushes to help.
- The humor is not in dim-wittedness and one-upmanship but in warmly portrayed everyday fallibility, in comic outbursts during which ordinary people give off funny or funny-sad sparks that keep both the farcical and the maudlin at bay.
- He sighs at your dim-wittedness and does not laugh at your attempts at humour.
- Who does have enough capital and dim-wittedness?
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