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   What does nitwit mean?

   • Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Can you solve 4 words at once? Get Word of the Day daily email! The meaning of NITWIT is a scatterbrained or stupid person. How to use nitwit in a sentence.

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   Is 'nitwit' a noun or a hypernym?

   • Familiarity information: 'Nitwit' is a noun. Hypernyms ('nitwit' is a kind of): simple, simpleton (a person lacking intelligence or common sense), colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

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   Is it nice to call someone a nitwit?

   • It's not nice to call someone a nitwit, but it's hard to resist when people do things that are outrageously incompetent or ridiculous. It's pretty common to refer to entire groups of people as nitwits, like politicians or fans of a rival sports team. The word comes from nit, "nothing" in dialectical Yiddish, and wit, "sense or intelligence."

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   What is a synonym for nitwit?

   • Report an error or suggest an improvement. Synonyms: blockhead, dummy, dimwit, fool, dolt, more... Visit the Spanish-English Forum. Help WordReference: Ask in the forums yourself. Go to Preferences page and choose from different actions for taps or mouse clicks. See Google Translate's machine translation of 'nitwit'.

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   The meaning of NITWIT is a scatterbrained or stupid person. How to use nitwit in a sentence.

3. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishNITWIT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   a foolish or stupid person. (Definition of nitwit from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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   A nitwit is a foolish person. If you bake a cake and stir a cup of salt into the batter instead of sugar, your brother will probably call you a nitwit. It's not nice to call someone a nitwit, but it's hard to resist when people do things that are outrageously incompetent or ridiculous.

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   a foolish or stupid person. (Definition of nitwit from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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   What does the word nitwit mean? There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the word nitwit. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. nitwit is considered derogatory. See meaning & use. How common is the word nitwit? About 0.07 occurrences per million words in modern written English. See frequency.

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   Nitwit definition: a slow-witted, stupid, or foolish person.. See examples of NITWIT used in a sentence.

8. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishNITWIT definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

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   nitwit. (nɪtwɪt ) Word forms: nitwits. countable noun. If you refer to someone as a nitwit, you think they are stupid or silly. [informal, disapproval] You great nitwit! Synonyms: fool, dummy [slang], plank [British, slang], oaf More Synonyms of nitwit. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.