half-wit
Use Half-wit in a sentence
noun
1.
a person who is feeble-minded.
2.
a person who is foolish or senseless; dunderhead.
Origin:
1670–80
1670–80
Synonyms
2. blockhead, dolt, fool, nitwit, dope, dummy, dimwit.
2. blockhead, dolt, fool, nitwit, dope, dummy, dimwit.
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Half-wit
is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
To say you have read a book and then seemingly to understand nothing of what you have read, proves you a half-wit.
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