witless

witless
Synonyms and related words:
a stranger to, abnormal, apish, asinine, asleep, batty, bedlamite, befooled, beguiled, bereft of reason, besotted, blind to, brainless, brainsick, buffoonish, caught napping, cockeyed, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, dazed, dead to, deaf to, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, disoriented, distraught, dizzy, doting, dumb, empty-headed, fatuitous, fatuous, featherbrained, featherheaded, flaky, flighty, fluttery, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, frivolous, fuddled, futile, gaga, giddy, giddy-brained, giddy-headed, giddy-pated, giddy-witted, goofy, gulled, hallucinated, harebrain, harebrained, headless, idiotic, ignorant, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-gauged, ill-judged, imbecile, impercipient, impolitic, imprudent, in ignorance of, inadvisable, inane, incognizant, inconsiderate, indiscreet, inept, inexpedient, infatuated, injudicious, insane, insensate, insensible, insensible to, irrational, kooky, lackbrained, lean-minded, lean-witted, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, maddened, manic, maudlin, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, mindless, misadvised, misguided, moon-struck, moronic, myopic, napping, nitwitted, non compos, non compos mentis, nonconceiving, not all there, not bright, not right, not with it, nutty, odd, of little brain, of unsound mind, off, out of it, pea-brained, pin-brained, psycho, queer, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, rattlepated, reasonless, reckless, sappy, scatterbrained, scramblebrained, screwy, senseless, sentimental, shatterbrained, shortsighted, sick, silly, slackminded, slackwitted, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, stupid, tetched, thoughtless, touched, unadvised, unaware, unaware of, unbalanced, unconscious, unconscious of, unconsidered, undiscerning, unforeseeing, ungifted, unhearing, unhinged, uninsightful, unintellectual, unintelligent, unknowing, unmindful, unmindful of, unperceiving, unprehensive, unrealizing, unreasonable, unreasoning, unreflecting, unreflective, unsane, unseeing, unsensible, unsettled, unsound, unsuspecting, untalented, unthinking, unthoughtful, unwise, unwitting, unwitty, wacky, wandering, weak-minded, wet

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • Witless — Wit less, a. Destitute of wit or understanding; wanting thought; hence, indiscreet; not under the guidance of judgment. Witless bravery. Shak. [1913 Webster] A witty mother! witless else her son. Shak. [1913 Webster] Witless pity breedeth… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • witless — O.E. witleas; see WIT (Cf. wit) + LESS (Cf. less). Phrase scared witless attested from 1975 …   Etymology dictionary

  • witless — index fatuous, irrational, obtuse, opaque Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • witless — [adj] foolish absurd, asinine, birdbrained*, brainless, cockamamy*, crazy, daffy*, doltish*, dotty*, dumb, feebleminded*, half baked*, half witted*, harebrained*, idiotic, ill advised, irrational, jerky*, kooky*, loony*, ludicrous, lunatic, mad,… …   New thesaurus

  • witless — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ foolish; stupid. DERIVATIVES witlessly adverb witlessness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • witless — [wit′lis] adj. lacking wit or intelligence; foolish witlessly adv. witlessness n …   English World dictionary

  • witless — wit|less [ wıtləs ] adjective 1. ) LITERARY very silly or stupid: This witless reaction has obscured the real problem. 2. ) an old word meaning mentally ill scare someone witless to make someone feel very frightened …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • witless — [[t]wɪ̱tləs[/t]] ADJ (disapproval) If you describe something or someone as witless, you mean that they are very foolish or stupid. ...a witless, nasty piece of journalism. Syn: mindless, stupid …   English dictionary

  • witless — adjective 1 not very intelligent or sensible; silly: if I catch the witless yobs who did this 2 scare sb witless to make someone very frightened witlessly adverb witlessness noun (U) …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • witless — UK [ˈwɪtləs] / US adjective 1) literary very silly or stupid This witless reaction has obscured the real problem. 2) an old word meaning mentally ill • scare someone witless …   English dictionary

  • witless — adjective Date: before 12th century 1. destitute of wit or understanding ; foolish 2. mentally deranged ; crazy < drive one witless with anxiety William Styron > • witlessly adverb • witlessness noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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