thickwitted

See also: thick-witted

English

Alternative forms

• thick-witted

Etymology

From thick +‎ witted.

Adjective

thickwitted (comparative more thickwitted, superlative most thickwitted)

1. Stupid, dim-witted.
   • 1865, Macmillan's Magazine, volume 12, page 99:

     His son she viewed as one of the thickwitted giants meant to be food for the heroism of good knights of romance.

   • 1996, Eugene Cunningham, Triggernometry: a gallery of gunfighters, page 41:

     And this was the smooth-faced, frightened, helpless boy, whom those two thickwitted, bullying officers were carrying to Waco!

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:stupid

Related terms

• thickwit