half-witted

The word “half-witted” has 3 syllables: half-wit-ted

It's pronounced as /ˌhæfˈwɪtɪd/


What is synonym and antonym for half-witted?

In the thesaurus, “half-witted” has 124 synonyms and 62 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for half-witted along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for half-witted

Antonyms for half-witted

  • acute
  • apt
  • astute
  • brainy
  • bright
  • brilliant
  • cerebral
  • clever
  • crafty
  • cunning
  • discerning
  • educated
  • erudite
  • fast
  • foxy
  • highbrow
  • hyperintelligent
  • informed
  • ingenious
  • insightful
  • intellectual
  • intelligent
  • judicious
  • keen
  • knowing
  • knowledgeable
  • learned
  • literate
  • logical
  • nimble
  • perceptive
  • percipient
  • perspicacious
  • prudent
  • quick
  • quick-witted
  • rational
  • reasonable
  • resourceful
  • sagacious
  • sage
  • sane
  • sapient
  • savvy
  • scholarly
  • schooled
  • sensible
  • sharp
  • sharp-witted
  • shrewd
  • skilled
  • smart
  • sound
  • supersmart
  • thinking
  • trained
  • ultrasmart
  • valid
  • well-advised
  • well-read
  • wily
  • wise

Meanings of half-witted

  • adjective
    1. Having a low intelligence; dim-witted.

Example Sentences

  • Despite his academic achievements, he occasionally made half-witted remarks.
  • The comedian delivered a series of half-witted jokes that left the audience unimpressed.
  • She dismissed his half-witted suggestions with a polite smile.
  • The character in the movie was portrayed as a half-witted sidekick, providing comic relief.
  • It was evident from his half-witted expression that he hadn't understood the instructions.

On this page you'll find 186 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to half-witted, such as: absurd, acute, airheaded, apt, asinine, astute, balmy.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

nerved

  • absurd
  • adventuresome
  • adventurous
  • armed
  • asinine
  • audacious
  • balmy
  • bold
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  • brainless
  • brash
  • brave
  • buttressed
  • comforted
  • courageous
  • crazy
  • daredevil
  • daring
  • dashing
  • dauntless
  • dumb
  • emboldened
  • encouraged
  • enforced
  • enterprising
  • fearless
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • forearmed
  • fortified
  • free-swinging
  • gadarene
  • gallant
  • greathearted
  • gritty
  • gutsy
  • half-witted
  • hardened
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  • harebrained
  • hasty
  • headlong
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  • heedless
  • heroic
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  • hotheaded
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  • unreasonable
  • valiant
  • valorous
  • venturesome
  • venturous
  • wacky
  • whacky
  • wild
  • witless

sappy

  • absurd
  • airheaded
  • asinine
  • balmy
  • bathetic
  • birdbrained
  • boobish
  • brain-dead
  • brainless
  • bubbleheaded
  • buffoonish
  • chocolate-box
  • chowderheaded
  • chuckleheaded
  • clownish
  • cloying
  • clueless
  • cockeyed
  • corny
  • crackpot
  • crazy
  • cuckoo
  • cutesy
  • daffy
  • daft
  • dense
  • dim
  • dim-witted
  • dippy
  • doltish
  • dopey
  • dopy
  • dorky
  • dotty
  • dreamy
  • drippy
  • dull
  • dumb
  • dunderheaded
  • empty-headed
  • fallacious
  • farcical
  • fatuous
  • featherheaded
  • feebleminded
  • feel-good
  • flat
  • fool
  • foolish
  • fruity
  • fuzzy
  • gooey
  • gormless
  • half-baked
  • half-witted
  • harebrained
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ill-advised
  • illogical
  • imbecile
  • imbecilic
  • inept
  • insane
  • insipid
  • invalid
  • irrational
  • jerky
  • knuckleheaded
  • kookie
  • kooky
  • lamebrain
  • lamebrained
  • laughable
  • looney
  • loony
  • lovey-dovey
  • ludicrous
  • lunatic
  • lunkheaded
  • mad
  • maudlin
  • mawkish
  • melodramatic
  • mindless
  • misty-eyed
  • moonstruck
  • moony
  • moronic
  • mushy
  • nonrational
  • nonsensical
  • nostalgic
  • notional
  • novelettish
  • nutty
  • oafish
  • obtuse
  • opaque
  • out to lunch
  • pinheaded
  • preposterous
  • ridiculous
  • saccharine
  • schmaltzy
  • screwball
  • senseless
  • sentimental
  • silly
  • simple
  • simpleminded
  • sloppy
  • slow
  • slow-witted
  • slushy
  • soap-operatic
  • soapy
  • soft
  • soft-boiled
  • softheaded
  • soppy
  • soupy
  • spooney
  • spoony
  • starry-eyed
  • sticky
  • stupid
  • sudsy
  • sugarcoated
  • sugary
  • surd
  • tasteless
  • thick
  • thickheaded
  • thoughtless
  • tomfool
  • twee
  • unconsidered
  • unintelligent
  • unreasonable
  • unreasoned
  • unreasoning
  • unsound
  • unwise
  • vacuous
  • vapid
  • wacky
  • watery
  • weak
  • weak-minded
  • wet
  • whacky
  • witless
  • zany

valiant

  • Spartan
  • adventuresome
  • adventurous
  • assertive
  • audacious
  • bold
  • brash
  • brave
  • brazen
  • chivalrous
  • comforted
  • courageous
  • crazy
  • daredevil
  • daring
  • dashing
  • dauntless
  • determined
  • doughty
  • emboldened
  • encouraged
  • fearless
  • fire-eating
  • firm
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • gallant
  • game
  • gamey
  • gamy
  • grand
  • great
  • greathearted
  • gritty
  • gutsy
  • gutty
  • half-witted
  • hardy
  • hasty
  • headlong
  • heartened
  • heedless
  • hero
  • heroic
  • heroical
  • high-spirited
  • hotheaded
  • impetuous
  • imprudent
  • impulsive
  • incautious
  • indomitable
  • insane
  • intrepid
  • lion-hearted
  • lionhearted
  • lunatic
  • mad
  • madcap
  • magnanimous
  • manful
  • mettlesome
  • nervy
  • noble
  • nutty
  • overbold
  • overconfident
  • plucky
  • powerful
  • precipitate
  • puissant
  • rash
  • reassured
  • reckless
  • redoubtable
  • resolute
  • self-reliant
  • spirited
  • spunky
  • stalwart
  • steadfast
  • stout
  • stouthearted
  • strong-willed
  • thoughtless
  • unafraid
  • undauntable
  • undaunted
  • undeterred
  • undismayed
  • unflinching
  • unswerving
  • valorous
  • venturesome
  • venturous
  • vigorous
  • wild
  • worthy

venturesome

mad

  • aberrant
  • absurd
  • acrid
  • acrimonious
  • acrimoniousness
  • acrimony
  • affront
  • aggravate
  • aggravated
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  • agitated
  • air rage
  • airheaded
  • amok
  • amuck
  • anger
  • angered
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  • angry
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  • annoy
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  • antagonism
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  • antagonize
  • antipathetic
  • antipathy
  • antisocial
  • ape
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  • ardent
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  • around the bend
  • asinine
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  • ballistic
  • balmy
  • bananas
  • barmy
  • bats
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  • bearish
  • bedlam
  • belligerence
  • belligerent
  • bent out of shape
  • berserk
  • bile
  • bilious
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  • birdbrained
  • birse
  • bitter
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  • blowup
  • blue in the face
  • boiling
  • bonkers
  • boobish
  • brain-dead
  • brainless
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  • bristling
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  • bubbleheaded
  • buffoonish
  • bughouse
  • burning
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  • certifiable
  • chafe
  • cheesed off
  • choler
  • choleric
  • chowderheaded
  • chuckleheaded
  • churlish
  • clownish
  • clueless
  • cockeyed
  • cold
  • concentrated
  • contempt
  • contentious
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  • contrariness
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  • crackbrained
  • cracked
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  • crankiness
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  • crazed
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  • cross
  • cuckoo
  • daffy
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  • delirious
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  • delusional
  • delusionary
  • demented
  • dense
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  • devoted
  • dim
  • dim-witted
  • dippy
  • disagreeable
  • disapproving
  • disordered
  • disputatious
  • disputatiousness
  • distant
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  • doltish
  • dopey
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  • dull
  • dumb
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  • eccentric
  • embitter
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  • empoisonment
  • empty-headed
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  • envy
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  • excessive
  • exorbitant
  • extravagant
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  • fallacious
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  • fatuous
  • featherheaded
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  • ferocious
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  • fit to be tied
  • fixated
  • flare
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  • foaming
  • fond
  • fool
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • frantic
  • frenetic
  • frenzied
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  • fruity
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  • furor
  • fury
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  • gaga
  • get
  • going crook
  • gormless
  • grouchy
  • grudge
  • grumpy
  • half-baked
  • half-witted
  • harebrained
  • haywire
  • heat
  • high-pressured
  • hooked
  • hopping
  • hopping mad
  • horn-mad
  • hostility
  • hot
  • hot under the collar
  • hot-headedness
  • huff
  • huffy
  • hysteric
  • hysterical
  • icy
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ill-advised
  • ill-humored
  • ill-tempered
  • illogical
  • imbecile
  • imbecilic
  • immoderate
  • impassioned
  • impractical
  • imprudent
  • in a fume
  • in a huff
  • in a pet
  • incense
  • incensed
  • indignant
  • indignation
  • inept
  • infatuated
  • inflame
  • inflamed
  • inflammable
  • infuriate
  • infuriated
  • inimical
  • inordinate
  • insane
  • intense
  • intensive
  • invalid
  • irascibility
  • irascible
  • irascibleness
  • irate
  • irateness
  • ire
  • ireful
  • irrational
  • irritability
  • irritable
  • irritate
  • irritated
  • irritation
  • jaundice
  • jealousy
  • jerky
  • keen
  • knuckleheaded
  • kookie
  • kooky
  • lamebrain
  • lamebrained
  • laughable
  • lavish
  • livid
  • lividity
  • lividness
  • loco
  • looney
  • looney tunes
  • loony
  • loony tunes
  • loopy
  • ludicrous
  • lunatic
  • lunkheaded
  • madden
  • madness
  • malevolence
  • malevolent
  • malice
  • maniac
  • maniacal
  • mental
  • meshuga
  • meshugah
  • meshuggah
  • meshugge
  • miff
  • mindless
  • monomaniac
  • monomaniacal
  • mood
  • moonstruck
  • moronic
  • nettle
  • neurotic
  • non compos mentis
  • nonrational
  • nonsensical
  • notional
  • nuclear
  • nuts
  • nutty
  • oafish
  • obsessed
  • obsessive-compulsive
  • obtuse
  • odd
  • oddball
  • of unsound mind
  • off
  • offend
  • opaque
  • orneriness
  • ornery
  • out to lunch
  • outburst
  • outrage
  • outraged
  • overmuch
  • overweening
  • paranoiac
  • paranoic
  • paranoid
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  • passion
  • passionate
  • peeve
  • peevish
  • perturbed
  • pet
  • petulant
  • pinheaded
  • pique
  • piqued
  • pixilated
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  • potty
  • preposterous
  • provoke
  • psycho
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  • pugnacious
  • pugnaciousness
  • pugnacity
  • put out
  • quarrelsome
  • quarrelsomeness
  • queer
  • querulous
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  • quick-tempered
  • rabid
  • rage
  • raging
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  • rancorous
  • rankle
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  • ranting
  • raving
  • reckless
  • resentful
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  • ridiculous
  • rile
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  • riley
  • rise
  • risky
  • road rage
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  • rub the wrong way
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  • sappy
  • scatty
  • schizoid
  • schizophrenic
  • screwball
  • screwy
  • seeing red
  • seething
  • senseless
  • shirty
  • silly
  • simple
  • simpleminded
  • sizzling
  • slow
  • slow burn
  • slow-witted
  • smoldering
  • smouldering
  • snappish
  • sociopathic
  • soft
  • softheaded
  • sore
  • sorehead
  • soreheaded
  • spite
  • spiteful
  • spleen
  • steam up
  • steamed up
  • steaming
  • stormy
  • strange
  • stupid
  • sulky
  • surd
  • teched
  • teed off
  • temper
  • testy
  • tetched
  • thick
  • thickheaded
  • thoughtless
  • tick off
  • ticked
  • tomfool
  • touched
  • touchy
  • unbalanced
  • unconscionable
  • unconsidered
  • undue
  • unfriendly
  • unhinged
  • unintelligent
  • unpleasant
  • unreasonable
  • unreasoned
  • unreasoning
  • unsafe
  • unsound
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  • unwise
  • vacuous
  • vehement
  • vengeful
  • vengefulness
  • venom
  • very upset
  • vex
  • vexation
  • vindictive
  • vindictiveness
  • violent
  • virulence
  • virulent
  • vitriol
  • vitriolic
  • wacko
  • wacky
  • warmth
  • weak
  • weak-minded
  • whacko
  • whacky
  • wigged-out
  • wild
  • witless
  • worked up
  • wrath
  • wrathful
  • wrathfulness
  • wroth
  • wud
  • zany
  • zealous

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