Meaning

1 senses

  1. (informal)A scatterbrained or stupid person.

    Schwachkopf, Dummkopf

    a stupid incompetent person

Examples

20 sentences

  1. I don't know what that nitwit could see.

    deIch weiß nicht, was dieser Trottel hat sehen können.

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  2. Don't listen to him, he's a complete nitwit.

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  3. She's always making foolish decisions; she's a real nitwit.

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  4. I can't stand his nitwit comments; they're so ignorant.

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  5. Rodrigo's nitwit policies are detrimental to the country's progress.

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Translations

4 languages
Deutsch
scatterbrained or stupid person:

Origin

First attested in the 1910s in the US Northeast. Likely from German nit, dialect form of n

First attested in the 1910s in the US Northeast. Likely from German nit, dialect form of nichts (“nothing”), or Yiddish ניט (nit), dialect form of נישט (nisht, “no”), although some dictionaries give the alternative etymology nit (“louse egg; something very small”) + wit.

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Forms

plural: nitwits
Singularnitwit
Pluralnitwits

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Derivednitwitterynitwittish

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
nitrousnittynoA1
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