Word Meanings - HALF-WITTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Weak in intellect; silly.

Related words: (words related to HALF-WITTED)

• SILLYHOW
  A caul. See Caul, n., 3.
• INTELLECTUALIST
  1. One who overrates the importance of the understanding. Bacon. 2. One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism.
• INTELLECT
  The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power
• INTELLECTUAL
  1. Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc. Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers. I. Watts. 2. Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding;
• INTELLECTIVELY
  In an intellective manner. "Not intellectivelly to write." Warner.
• INTELLECTUALLY
  In an intellectual manner.
• SILLY
  sely, AS. s, ges, happy, good, fr. s, s, good, happy, s good fortune, happines; akin to OS. salig, a, good, happy, D. zalig blessed, G. selig, OHG. salig, Icel. s, Sw. säll, Dan. salig, Goth. s good, kind, 1. Happy; fortunate; blessed. Chaucer.
• INTELLECTUALITY
  Intellectual powers; possession of intellect; quality of being intellectual.
• INTELLECTIVE
  1. Pertaining to, or produced by, the intellect or understanding; intellectual. 2. Having power to understand, know, or comprehend; intelligent; rational. Glanvill. 3. Capable of being perceived by the understanding only, not by the senses.
• INTELLECTUALIZE
  1. To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss intellectually; to reduce to intellectual form; to express intellectually; to idealize. Sentiment is intellectualized emotion. Lowell. 2. To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities
• INTELLECTED
  Endowed with intellect; having intellectual powers or capacities. In body, and in bristles, they became As swine, yet intellected as before. Cowper.
• INTELLECTION
  A mental act or process; especially: The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. A creation of the mind itself. Hickok.
• INTELLECTUALISM
  1. Intellectual power; intellectuality. 2. The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason.
• SUPERINTELLECTUAL
  Being above intellect.
• UNSILLY
  See UNSELY