witless

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He was overwhelmed, witless, as helpless as a child.

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  1. adjective Lacking intelligence or wit; foolish.

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  • “They sound a lot like princesses—stubborn, witless, and—” He stopped short in dismay. —  Searching
  • "They sound a lot like princesses-stubborn, witless, and-" He stopped short in dismay. —  Searching for Dragons
  • In the party of the witless, the half-wit shall be queen —  The Richmond Democrat
  • The sunbeams that shine do not belong to the Exxon Mobils of the world and that scares them witless (or a word that rhymes with witless) 24 April 2009 at 7: 06 PM —  RealClimate
  • "I am like my father--witless in matters of the heart, and of a poor way with women; yet the jewels that strew these royal garden paths--the trees, the flowers, the sward--all must have read the love that has filled my heart since first my eyes were made new by imaging your perfect face and form; so how could you alone have been blind to it Do the maids of Helium pay court to their men?" —  Thuvia, Maid of Mars
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  1. Also formerly or dial. weetless; from Middle English witles, from Anglo-Saxon *witleás (in deriv. witleást) (= Icelandic vitiauss), witless; as wit + -less.
 

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