Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Slow to comprehend.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Mentally sluggish; dull.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Dull of apprehension; not possessing quick intelligence.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. retarded in intellectual development
Examples
“Herds need to be driven ... especially if there are lots of slow-witted pachyderm members holding up the parade.”
“Falk is best known for his portrayal of the rumpled, seemingly slow-witted television detective Columbo, a role that earned him four Emmy awards.”
““According to the legends, an attendant kept eternal vigil within the tomb,” Daz explained as if she were a rather slow-witted convalescent.”
“Baier seemed rather slow-witted and a bit intimidated, but his hedge-hogging totally schooled our Presidential fox.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » House Democratic Leaders Drop “Deem and Pass”
“John Steinbeck helpfully named a slow-witted ranch hand he had met during a stint as a migrant worker in California as the prototype for the unintentionally murderous Lennie in "Of Mice and Men.”
“I was actually thinking more of myself and my jealousy of Debbie than I was about the division of labor in my family, but my mother, ever the patriarchal apologist, said, “We do nice things for men because they lead the services!” as if I was slow-witted regarding everything that life is really about.”
“Defendor (2009) - Likely an adult alternative to the upcoming – and far more cynically created and marketed – Kick Ass, this indie stars Woody Harrelsonas a slow-witted but idealistic man who dons something resembling a superhero costume to fight urban crime and defeata localdrug kingpin named Captain Industry and a dirty cop (Elias Koteas.)”
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“But what defies expectations is the feeling of the show itself, which reflects back to us a time when the Left took the Right utterly by surprise and, for a short while, ran rampant like tiny nimble mammals between the hulking legs of slow-witted dinosaurs.”
The Huffington Post: William Horden: The Yin And Yang Of The Culture War
“Siraj, who at his trial appeared to be slow-witted, was sentenced to 30 years in prison.”
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LIT - Odyssey - key words and phrases
Key words of the Odyssey by Homer in English including all those famous repeating epitethons like
"bright-eyed Athene"
"wine-dark sea"
"rosy-fingered dawn"
"long suf...yearling, wild celery, Wain, Themis, talon, slither, sedge, sea eagle, scurf, rile, prevaricate, poplar tree and 732 more...
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adjectives
sartorial, saucy, wieldy, wuthering, dilapidated, rough-and-ready, flabbergasted, ravishing, seminal, snooty, galore, scrumptious and 386 more...
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