Word Meanings - HALF-CRACKED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Half-demented; half-witted.
Related words: (words related to HALF-CRACKED)
- WITTS
Tin ore freed from earthy matter by stamping. Knight. - WITTED
Having a wit or understanding; as, a quick-witted boy. - DEMENTED
Insane; mad; of unsound mind. -- De*ment"ed*ness, n. - WITTY
1. Possessed of wit; knowing; wise; skillful; judicious; clever; cunning. "The deep-revolving witty Buckingham." Shak. 2. Especially, possessing wit or humor; good at repartee; droll; facetious; sometimes, sarcastic; as, a witty remark, poem, - WITTINESS
The quality of being witty. - WITTOLLY
Like a wittol; cuckoldly. Shak. - WITTINGLY
Knowingly; with knowledge; by design. - DEMENT
Demented; dementate. J. H. Newman. - DEMENTATE
Deprived of reason. Arise, thou dementate sinner! Hammond. - WITTICASTER
A witling. Milton. - DEMENTIA
Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy. - WITTILY
In a witty manner; wisely; ingeniously; artfully; with it; with a delicate turn or phrase, or with an ingenious association of ideas. Who his own harm so wittily contrives. Dryden. - WITTOL
The wheatear. 2. A man who knows his wife's infidelity and submits to it; a tame cuckold; -- so called because the cuckoo lays its eggs in the wittol's nest. Shak. - DEMENTATION
The act of depriving of reason; madness. Whitlock. - WITTICISM
A witty saying; a sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; an attempt at wit; a conceit. Milton. He is full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticisms; all which are below the dignity of heroic verse. Addison. - WITTIFIED
Possessed of wit; witty. R. North. - DISWITTED
Deprived of wits or understanding; distracted. Drayton. - TWITTERING
1. The act of one who, or that which, twitters. 2. A slight nervous excitement or agitation, such as is caused by desire, expectation, or suspense. A widow, who had a twittering towards a second husband, took a gossiping companion to manage the - SODDEN-WITTED
Heavy; dull. Shak. - DECIDEMENT
Means of forming a decision. Beau. & Fl. - UNWITTING
Not knowing; unconscious; ignorant. -- Un*wit"ting*ly, adv. - HALF-WITTED
Weak in intellect; silly. - TWITTER
One who twits, or reproaches; an upbraider. - TWITTLE-TWATTLE
Tattle; gabble. L'Estrange. - FAT-WITTED
Dull; stupid. Shak. - DEGRADEMENT
Deprivation of rank or office; degradation. Milton. - SLOW-WITTED
Dull of apprehension; not possessing quick intelligence. - BEEF-WITTED
Stupid; dull. Shak. - QUICK-WITTED
Having ready wit Shak. - INCOMMODEMENT
The act of incommoded. Cheyne.