thick-witted

adjective

ˈthik-ˌwi-təd How to pronounce thick-witted (audio)
Definition of thick-wittednext
as in stupid
not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily one of the most overused clichés of teen comedies: the thick-witted high school jock

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thick-witted
  1. stupid
  2. dumb
  3. slow
  4. thick
  5. simple
  6. dull
  7. dense
  8. ignorant
Adjective
  • Give yourself permission to go see a truly stupid movie.
    Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week US, theweek, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Among the show’s many, many, many Twilight Zone spoofs, this one is the funniest and the best, with a conclusion that’s equal parts brilliant and stupid.
    Joshua Kurp, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of stupid
Adjective
  • Ratajkowski has been fighting the stereotype of the dumb model from the beginning of her career.
    Daniel Jackson, Allure, 18 July 2017
  • Ninety nine percent of all NFL players are explicitly not dumb.
    Andy Benoit, The MMQB, 10 July 2017
Definition of dumb
Adjective
  • However, Prince William wants to take things very slow for his wife to ease her back into normalcy.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The shutter speed of the 6X zoom is relatively slow in low light conditions, resulting in blurry shots more often than with, say, the Vivo X200 Pro.
    Ben Sin, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of slow
Adjective
  • Therefore, don’t be surprised to see bucks bedding right on the edge of thick cover within some of the areas noted above.
    Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 22 Nov. 2024
  • In almost any Auerbach oil painting, early or late, rawness is thick on the ground.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of thick
Adjective
  • If peace has always been but a simple voluntary choice, the price of human imperfection has been paid in the coin of perpetual war.
    Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
  • Or that a different definition will make a theory simpler.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 18 Nov. 2024
Definition of simple
Adjective
  • Sweet Rose High Rolled Accent Chair Brighten up dull spaces with this floral accent chair that’s on major sale ahead of Black Friday.
    Kelsey Fredricks, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Peter Field and Adam Morgan call it the ‘extraordinary cost of dull’.
    Sairah Ashman, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of dull
Adjective
  • States with less dense populations tend to have less traffic, and people in rural communities often live closer to their jobs than those commuting to a city or taking an hourlong subway ride to work, Search Logistics found.
    Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 18 Nov. 2024
  • In the app, the Wildfire Smoke Layer shows where smoke from those fires drifts and how dense that smoke is.
    Kristin Shaw, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of dense
Adjective
  • Donald Trump, so ignorant of the past and so careless about the future, is a present-tense kind of candidate.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Was an ancient reptile, for all intents and purposes a 15-million-year-old dinosaur, actually roaming this expanse of creosote scrub, subsisting on beavertail cactus flesh, going about her day ignorant of the weather alerts, the headlines, the untold human tragedies?
    Outside Online, Outside Online, 23 Oct. 2024
Definition of ignorant
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