Synonyms for witless

Grammar : Adj

Spell : wit-lis

Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɪt lɪs

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Définition of witless

Origin : Old English witleas; see wit (n.) + -less. Phrase scared witless attested from 1975. Related: Witlessly; witlessness.

adj foolish

Example sentences :

And all this witless piffle because of a quite natural misunderstanding of mine.
Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson

Capering creatures, who behaved witlessly, yet were far from witless.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 » by Various

The wife of the “odious person” was witless and fatuously conceited.
Extract from : « Chance » by Joseph Conrad

There was a witless vanity about my friend that sat on him almost like a virtue.
Extract from : « John Splendid » by Neil Munro

But do not give your witless vanity a foolish airing before my chaplain.
Extract from : « John Splendid » by Neil Munro

She began to be witless again, to wring her hands, to whimper and whine.
Extract from : « Little Novels of Italy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett

Would he take a wander-thought to his bed, and have witless children?
Extract from : « The Arrow-Maker » by Mary Austin

The man Lazarus is witless, he writes, of the relative value of all things.
Extract from : « Introduction to Robert Browning » by Hiram Corson

Impatience came to his voice; in truth, I must have been staring at him witless.
Extract from : « Tarrano the Conqueror » by Raymond King Cummings

I was hardly so witless as not to realize the truth of his admonition.
Extract from : « Tarrano the Conqueror » by Raymond King Cummings

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