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Definition of witless in English: witlessadjective ˈwɪtləsˈwɪtlɪs 1Foolish; stupid. 愚蠢的，傻的 愚蠢的反驳。 Example sentencesExamples - You'd never guess such a thing from this 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is listless, witless, and devoid of anything resembling humor.
- It may have been fruity with a generous helping of tacky but for $7.50 I could forget that Valentine's Day was nothing more than a cheap, stupid marketing ploy designed to suck money from the witless masses.
- Thus, in Mrs. Kerry's brainless and witless offhand yet pregnant remark, we hear the sick thud of the other shoe dropping.
- I now have to share this island with the most wretched, witless, humourless, colourless, featureless, brainless, mindless people who have shared this planet since homo sapiens evolved.
- We've always had a good old chuckle at his witless expense.
- He will be witless and will revel in childish things like fighting and kicking a ball about.
- In fact, it seems that you are nothing more than a debunker without a basis for your witless inane statements!
- Poor Nina, as a student at the University, was required to suffer the idiots pestering her with puns as witless and unintelligent as themselves.
- And unless the powers that be and their witless supporters get that through their thick skulls, failure is what we are most likely to get.
- Which leads me to a sense of wonder: Can there really be that many tasteless, stupid tourists about to keep a show this witless and sorry afloat for so long?
Synonyms foolish, stupid, unintelligent, idiotic, brainless, mindless, imbecilic, imbecile fatuous, inane, immature, childish, puerile, half-baked, empty-headed, half-witted, slow-witted, weak-minded, doltish informal crazy, dotty, scatty, loopy, brain-dead, cretinous, thick, thickheaded, birdbrained, pea-brained, pinheaded, dopey, dim, dim-witted, dippy, blockheaded, boneheaded, lamebrained, chuckleheaded, dunderheaded, wooden-headed, muttonheaded, damfool British informal daft, divvy Scottish & Northern English informal glaikit North American informal dumb-ass, chowderheaded South African informal dof West Indian informal dotish - 1.1as complement To such an extent that one cannot think clearly or rationally.
发疯的，精神错乱的 我吓得灵魂出窍。 Example sentencesExamples - It is used to hold thick doors open, crush particularly large spiders and scare witless those English students who have to read it.
- I suddenly realized how foolish I was acting, scared witless by a simple dream.
Synonyms out of one's mind, to death, to tears, silly, stupid, sick
Derivativesadverbˈwɪtləsliˈwɪtləsli It was otherwise an unremarkable fair: too much food, dancing, theft, mountebanks, young men and women sneaking off together, people in witlessly fashionable clothing. Example sentencesExamples - When did sex symbols become so hollow, so cheap, so witlessly incapable of building on their beauty?
- I got in, enthusiastically dipped the oar in the water, forgot all about the legs, and went at it witlessly - and it showed.
- The more we witlessly participate in this process, the more we are divided one from another.
- Jane was considerately treated in the Tower, but when her father witlessly joined Sir Thomas Wyatt's rebellion in January, Jane was considered too dangerous a focus of plots to be allowed to live.
- Even though most of me was protesting witlessly against my decision, I pushed myself past their disapproval and uttered the secret that I finally found the courage to confess.
- Beautiful old stone terrace houses which would have been snapped up for renovation in Australia were witlessly destroyed.
- I have no idea what's just been ordered and I'm really not hungry, but I don't want to be ungrateful so I smile witlessly and say ‘Gracias’, which doesn't fool anybody.
- We could hardly believe we had so witlessly fallen into the hands of such scoundrels.
- Whoever wrote the thing wasted their time witlessly programming a lengthy table of anti-virus programs into it.
nounˈwɪtləsnəsˈwɪtləsnəs What might be the earliest record of a case brought before the king was described as ‘an idiot who [in 1212] is in the prison because in his witlessness he confessed that he is a thief, although in fact he is not to blame.’ Example sentencesExamples - In the end, however, he often ends up looking better than his graceless accusers whose venality and malice and witlessness is planned, protracted and considered, whereas his offenses are more often merely impulsive, abrupt and foolish.
- In the evening, though, I come home to reality - as filtered through the TV - where murderers seem to vie with each other for the witlessness and triviality of their motives.
- Berkeley, oblivious to anything but a total belief in her own talent, pursues her one-dimensional, absurdly caricatured role with a ferocious energy and dedication that in its witlessness is nothing if not breathtaking.
- There were few short moments of witlessness that were followed by a hard landing.
- Believe it or not, a lot of Aussies are embarrassed at the sheer witlessness of some of the men's comments.
- What irritates me is the utter witlessness of these speeches.
OriginOld English witlēas 'crazy, dazed' (see wit1, -less). Definition of witless in US English: witlessadjectiveˈwɪtlɪsˈwitlis 1Foolish; stupid. 愚蠢的，傻的 愚蠢的反驳。 Example sentencesExamples - Thus, in Mrs. Kerry's brainless and witless offhand yet pregnant remark, we hear the sick thud of the other shoe dropping.
- Which leads me to a sense of wonder: Can there really be that many tasteless, stupid tourists about to keep a show this witless and sorry afloat for so long?
- In fact, it seems that you are nothing more than a debunker without a basis for your witless inane statements!
- He will be witless and will revel in childish things like fighting and kicking a ball about.
- I now have to share this island with the most wretched, witless, humourless, colourless, featureless, brainless, mindless people who have shared this planet since homo sapiens evolved.
- And unless the powers that be and their witless supporters get that through their thick skulls, failure is what we are most likely to get.
- It may have been fruity with a generous helping of tacky but for $7.50 I could forget that Valentine's Day was nothing more than a cheap, stupid marketing ploy designed to suck money from the witless masses.
- We've always had a good old chuckle at his witless expense.
- You'd never guess such a thing from this 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is listless, witless, and devoid of anything resembling humor.
- Poor Nina, as a student at the University, was required to suffer the idiots pestering her with puns as witless and unintelligent as themselves.
Synonyms foolish, stupid, unintelligent, idiotic, brainless, mindless, imbecilic, imbecile - 1.1as complement To such an extent that one cannot think clearly or rationally.
发疯的，精神错乱的 我吓得灵魂出窍。 Example sentencesExamples - It is used to hold thick doors open, crush particularly large spiders and scare witless those English students who have to read it.
- I suddenly realized how foolish I was acting, scared witless by a simple dream.
Synonyms out of one's mind, to death, to tears, silly, stupid, sick
OriginOld English witlēas ‘crazy, dazed’ (see wit, -less). |