'Witless' definitions:
Definition of 'witless'
(from WordNet)
adjective
(of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment [syn: nitwitted, senseless, soft-witted, witless]
Definition of 'Witless'
From: GCIDE
- Witless \Wit"less\, a. Destitute of wit or understanding; wanting thought; hence, indiscreet; not under the guidance of judgment. "Witless bravery." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- A witty mother! witless else her son. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Witless pity breedeth fruitless love. --Fairfax. [1913 Webster] -- {Wit"less*ly}, adv. -- {Wit"less*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'witless'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a stranger to,
- abnormal,
- apish,
- asinine,
- asleep,
- batty,
- bedlamite,
- befooled,
- beguiled,
- bereft of reason,
- besotted,
- blind to,
- brainless,
- brainsick,
- buffoonish,
- caught napping,
- cockeyed,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- credulous,
- daffy,
- daft,
- dazed,
- dead to,
- deaf to,
- deluded,
- demented,
- deprived of reason,
- deranged,
- disoriented,
- distraught,
- dizzy,
- doting,
- dumb,
- empty-headed,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- featherbrained,
- featherheaded,
- flaky,
- flighty,
- fluttery,
- fond,
- fool,
- foolheaded,
- foolish,
- frivolous,
- fuddled,
- futile,
- gaga,
- giddy,
- giddy-brained,
- giddy-headed,
- giddy-pated,
- giddy-witted,
- goofy,
- gulled,
- hallucinated,
- harebrain,
- harebrained,
- headless,
- idiotic,
- ignorant,
- ill-advised,
- ill-considered,
- ill-contrived,
- ill-devised,
- ill-gauged,
- ill-judged,
- imbecile,
- impercipient,
- impolitic,
- imprudent,
- in ignorance of,
- inadvisable,
- inane,
- incognizant,
- inconsiderate,
- indiscreet,
- inept,
- inexpedient,
- infatuated,
- injudicious,
- insane,
- insensate,
- insensible,
- insensible to,
- irrational,
- kooky,
- lackbrained,
- lean-minded,
- lean-witted,
- loco,
- loony,
- lunatic,
- mad,
- maddened,
- manic,
- maudlin,
- mazed,
- mental,
- mentally deficient,
- meshuggah,
- mindless,
- misadvised,
- misguided,
- moon-struck,
- moronic,
- myopic,
- napping,
- nitwitted,
- non compos,
- non compos mentis,
- nonconceiving,
- not all there,
- not bright,
- not right,
- not with it,
- nutty,
- odd,
- of little brain,
- of unsound mind,
- off,
- out of it,
- pea-brained,
- pin-brained,
- psycho,
- queer,
- rattlebrained,
- rattleheaded,
- rattlepated,
- reasonless,
- reckless,
- sappy,
- scatterbrained,
- scramblebrained,
- screwy,
- senseless,
- sentimental,
- shatterbrained,
- shortsighted,
- sick,
- silly,
- slackminded,
- slackwitted,
- stark-mad,
- stark-staring mad,
- strange,
- stupid,
- tetched,
- thoughtless,
- touched,
- unadvised,
- unaware,
- unaware of,
- unbalanced,
- unconscious,
- unconscious of,
- unconsidered,
- undiscerning,
- unforeseeing,
- ungifted,
- unhearing,
- unhinged,
- uninsightful,
- unintellectual,
- unintelligent,
- unknowing,
- unmindful,
- unmindful of,
- unperceiving,
- unprehensive,
- unrealizing,
- unreasonable,
- unreasoning,
- unreflecting,
- unreflective,
- unsane,
- unseeing,
- unsensible,
- unsettled,
- unsound,
- unsuspecting,
- untalented,
- unthinking,
- unthoughtful,
- unwise,
- unwitting,
- unwitty,
- wacky,
- wandering,
- weak-minded,
- wet