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

  • absurd
  • airheaded
  • asinine
  • balmy
  • birdbrained
  • bonehead
  • boneheaded
  • boobish
  • brain-dead
  • brainless
  • bubbleheaded
  • buffoonish
  • chowderheaded
  • chuckleheaded
  • clownish
  • clueless
  • cockeyed
  • crackpot
  • crazy
  • cretinous
  • cuckoo
  • daffy
  • daft
  • defective
  • dense
  • dim
  • dim-witted
  • dippy
  • doltish
  • dopey
  • dopy
  • dorky
  • dotty
  • dull
  • dull-witted
  • dumb
  • dunderheaded
  • empty-headed
  • fallacious
  • farcical
  • fatuous
  • featherheaded
  • feebleminded
  • fool
  • foolish
  • gormless
  • half-baked
  • harebrained
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ignorant
  • ill-advised
  • illiterate
  • illogical
  • imbecile
  • imbecilic
  • inept
  • insane
  • invalid
  • irrational
  • jerky
  • knuckleheaded
  • kookie
  • kooky
  • lamebrain
  • lamebrained
  • laughable
  • looney
  • loony
  • lowbrow
  • ludicrous
  • lunatic
  • lunkheaded
  • mad
  • mindless
  • moronic
  • nonrational
  • nonsensical
  • notional
  • nutty
  • oafish
  • obtuse
  • opaque
  • out to lunch
  • pinheaded
  • preposterous
  • ridiculous
  • sappy
  • screwball
  • senseless
  • silly
  • simple
  • simpleminded
  • slow
  • slow-witted
  • soft
  • softheaded
  • stupid
  • surd
  • thick
  • thick-witted
  • thickheaded
  • thoughtless
  • tomfool
  • unconsidered
  • uneducated
  • uninformed
  • unintellectual
  • unintelligent
  • unreasonable
  • unreasoned
  • unreasoning
  • unsmart
  • unsound
  • untaught
  • unthinking
  • unwise
  • vacuous
  • wacky
  • weak
  • weak-minded
  • whacky
  • witless
  • zany

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

absurd

balmy

  • aberrant
  • absurd
  • airheaded
  • amok
  • amuck
  • ape
  • around the bend
  • asinine
  • ballistic
  • bananas
  • barmy
  • bats
  • batty
  • bedlam
  • benign
  • berserk
  • birdbrained
  • bland
  • bonkers
  • boobish
  • brain-dead
  • brainless
  • brainsick
  • bubbleheaded
  • buffering
  • buffoonish
  • bugged out
  • bughouse
  • calm
  • certifiable
  • chowderheaded
  • chuckleheaded
  • clear
  • clement
  • cloudless
  • clownish
  • clueless
  • cockeyed
  • compassionate
  • crackbrained
  • cracked
  • crackers
  • crackpot
  • cranky
  • crazed
  • crazy
  • cuckoo
  • cushioning
  • daffy
  • daft
  • delicate
  • delightful
  • delirious
  • delusional
  • delusionary
  • demented
  • dense
  • depressed
  • deranged
  • dim
  • dim-witted
  • dippy
  • disordered
  • distracted
  • distraught
  • disturbed
  • doltish
  • dopey
  • dopy
  • dorky
  • dotty
  • dull
  • dumb
  • dunderheaded
  • easy
  • eccentric
  • emollient
  • empty-headed
  • equable
  • fair
  • fallacious
  • farcical
  • fatuous
  • featherheaded
  • feebleminded
  • fey
  • fine
  • fixated
  • fool
  • foolish
  • frantic
  • frenzied
  • fruity
  • gaga
  • genial
  • gentle
  • glorious
  • gormless
  • halcyon
  • half-baked
  • half-witted
  • harebrained
  • haywire
  • hysteric
  • hysterical
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ill-advised
  • illogical
  • imbecile
  • imbecilic
  • inept
  • insane
  • invalid
  • irrational
  • jerky
  • knuckleheaded
  • kookie
  • kooky
  • lamebrain
  • lamebrained
  • laughable
  • lenient
  • light
  • loco
  • looney
  • looney tunes
  • loony
  • loony tunes
  • loopy
  • ludicrous
  • lunatic
  • lunkheaded
  • mad
  • maniac
  • maniacal
  • mellow
  • mental
  • merciful
  • meshuga
  • meshugah
  • meshuggah
  • meshugge
  • mild
  • mindless
  • moderate
  • moist
  • monomaniac
  • monomaniacal
  • moonstruck
  • moronic
  • neurotic
  • non compos mentis
  • nonabrasive
  • nonrational
  • nonsensical
  • notional
  • nuclear
  • nuts
  • nutty
  • oafish
  • obsessed
  • obsessive-compulsive
  • obtuse
  • odd
  • oddball
  • off
  • opaque
  • out to lunch
  • pacific
  • paranoiac
  • paranoic
  • paranoid
  • paranoidal
  • peaceful
  • pinheaded
  • pixilated
  • pixillated
  • placid
  • pleasant
  • potty
  • preposterous
  • psycho
  • psychotic
  • queer
  • quiet
  • rainless
  • raving
  • refreshing
  • ridiculous
  • sappy
  • scatty
  • schizoid
  • schizophrenic
  • screwball
  • screwy
  • senseless
  • serene
  • silly
  • simple
  • simpleminded
  • sleek
  • slick
  • slow
  • slow-witted
  • smooth
  • sociopathic
  • soft
  • softening
  • softheaded
  • soothing
  • strange
  • stupid
  • summerlike
  • summery
  • sunny
  • sunshiny
  • surd
  • teched
  • temperate
  • tender
  • tetched
  • thick
  • thickheaded
  • thoughtless
  • tomfool
  • touched
  • tranquil
  • tropical
  • unbalanced
  • unconsidered
  • unhinged
  • unintelligent
  • unreasonable
  • unreasoned
  • unreasoning
  • unsound
  • unwise
  • vacuous
  • wacko
  • wacky
  • warm
  • weak
  • weak-minded
  • whacko
  • whacky
  • wigged-out
  • witless
  • wud
  • zany

daffy

daft

daring

  • absurd
  • accosting
  • adventuresome
  • adventuresomeness
  • adventurous
  • adventurousness
  • affronting
  • approaching
  • asinine
  • audacious
  • audaciousness
  • audacity
  • backbone
  • balmy
  • battling
  • bearding
  • bold
  • boldness
  • bottle
  • brainless
  • brash
  • brassiness
  • brassy
  • brave
  • braveness
  • bravery
  • braving
  • brazening
  • brazenness
  • breasting
  • challenging
  • cheek
  • cheeky
  • cockiness
  • cocky
  • cojones
  • combating
  • combatting
  • confronting
  • cornering
  • courage
  • courageous
  • courageousness
  • crazy
  • crusty
  • daredevil
  • daredevilry
  • daredeviltry
  • daringness
  • dashing
  • dauntless
  • dauntlessness
  • defying
  • determination
  • doughtiness
  • dumb
  • effrontery
  • emboldened
  • encountering
  • endurance
  • enterprising
  • facing
  • fearless
  • fearlessness
  • fiber
  • fighting
  • fire-eating
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • fortitude
  • forward
  • free-swinging
  • fronting
  • gadarene
  • gall
  • gallant
  • gallantry
  • game
  • go for broke
  • greathearted
  • greatheartedness
  • grit
  • gritty
  • gumption
  • guts
  • gutsiness
  • gutsy
  • gutty
  • half-witted
  • hardihood
  • hardy
  • harebrained
  • hasty
  • headlong
  • heart
  • heedless
  • heroic
  • heroical
  • heroism
  • hot shot
  • hotheaded
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • impetuous
  • imprudent
  • impudence
  • impudent
  • impulsive
  • incautious
  • insane
  • intestinal fortitude
  • intrepid
  • intrepidity
  • intrepidness
  • irrational
  • lionhearted
  • lunatic
  • mad
  • madcap
  • meeting
  • mettle
  • moronic
  • moxie
  • nerve
  • nerved
  • nervy
  • nutty
  • obtrusive
  • opposing
  • out on a limb
  • outbraving
  • outfacing
  • overbold
  • overconfident
  • pecker
  • perseverance
  • pluck
  • pluckiness
  • plucky
  • precipitate
  • prowess
  • rash
  • reckless
  • repelling
  • resisting
  • resolution
  • salt
  • salty
  • scatterbrained
  • silly
  • smart
  • smart-alecky
  • spirited
  • spunk
  • spunky
  • stalwart
  • stamina
  • standing
  • standing up to
  • stomach
  • stout
  • stouthearted
  • stoutness
  • stumping
  • stupid
  • swashbuckling
  • temerarious
  • temerity
  • temper
  • tenacity
  • thoughtless
  • unafraid
  • undaunted
  • unnecessary
  • unreasonable
  • valiance
  • valiant
  • valor
  • valorous
  • venturesome
  • venturesomeness
  • venturous
  • virtue
  • wacky
  • whacky
  • wild
  • withstanding
  • witless

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