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Definition of Nitwit
1. Noun. A stupid incompetent person.
Language type: Colloquialism
Generic synonyms: Simple, Simpleton
Definition of Nitwit
1. Noun. A scatterbrained or stupid person. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nitwit
1. a stupid person [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nitwit
Literary usage of Nitwit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Heave 'Em Out: Phase Three by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1994)
"“No” shouted back the Christian nitwit, “God will save me.” The water continued
to rise and the nitwit continued to pray for saving. ..."
2. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1873)
"Signed, If the data which I recently received from England are exact, and it is
really a fact Future „m,—u that in the environs of London alone of tn nitwit ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1826)
"Against Nestorius he seemed to introduce the nitwit of the Monophysites : against
Eutyches he appeared to countenance the ..."
4. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar, to the Revolution by David Hume (1811)
"... defeated them, and nitwit^ compelled them to make a very precipitate retreat.
In Banding, this rout Freytag himself, and prince Adolphus of Eng- mense ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"'Little Caesar,' she said severely, 'you have been drinking, you are stuttering
like a little nitwit. Pass me the towel.' I passed her the towel and helped ..."
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