Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Doltish; stupid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Dull; stupid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
dull ;stupid
Etymologies
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Latin hebes, hebetis, dull, stupid, from hebere to be dull.
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Examples
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His book on the action of worms, however, was shown by Professor Paley and other writers {242a} to contain many serious errors and omissions, though it involved no personal question; but I imagine him to have been more or less hebete when he wrote this book.
Luck or Cunning? Samuel Butler 1868
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For I am becoming more hebete every hour: and have not even the ambition to go up to London all this spring to see the Exhibitions, etc.
Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 Edward FitzGerald 1846
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