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nitwit
" I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself."
Mary Matalin

Meaning of "nitwit" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD NITWIT

Perhaps from nit1 + wit1.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF NITWIT

ˈnɪtˌwɪt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NITWIT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Nitwit is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES NITWIT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Nitwit

Nitwit, a colloquial noun for a stupid person, may refer to: ▪ an idiot ▪ Nitwit Records ▪ Nittany Nation, formerly known "Nittwits", a student organization...

Definition of nitwit in the English dictionary

The definition of nitwit in the dictionary is a foolish person.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NITWIT

acquit · adequate · banquet · dewitt · dimwit · fuckwit · godwit · halfwit · inadequate · inwit · nimblewit · outwit · quit · squit · thimblewit · twit · underwit · whit · wit · Witt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NITWIT

nitrophilous · nitrosamine · nitrosation · nitroso · nitrosyl · nitrotoluene · nitrous · nitrous acid · nitrous bacteria · nitrous oxide · nitroxyl · nitry · nitryl · nittier · nittiest · nitty · nitty-gritty · nitwitted · nitwittedness · nitwittery

WORDS THAT END LIKE NITWIT

a bit · Attic wit · bar-tailed godwit · benefit · bit · black-tailed godwit · circuit · credit · cut it · Detroit · dit · edit · exclusive OR circuit · exit · mother wit · pewit · rapier wit · tewit · to wit · unwit

Synonyms and antonyms of nitwit in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «NITWIT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «nitwit» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «nitwit» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NITWIT

Find out the translation of nitwit to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of nitwit from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «nitwit» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

傻子
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

imbécil
570 millions of speakers
en

English

nitwit
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

मूर्ख
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مغفل
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

дурак
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

imbecil
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

জড়বুদ্ধি ব্যক্তি
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

crétin
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Nitwit
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Schwachkopf
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

nitwit
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

시렁 꿍 시렁
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Nitwit
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người ngu dại
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

அறிவற்ற
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

नाइटविट
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

kuş beyinli
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

stupido
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

nitwit
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

дурень
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

tont
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

nitwit
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sot
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nitwit
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tåpelig person
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nitwit

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NITWIT»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of nitwit
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about nitwit

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QUOTES WITH «NITWIT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word nitwit.
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Mary Matalin
I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NITWIT»

Discover the use of nitwit in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nitwit and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Nitwit
Ext- Night- 9th Street Cody Ovitch leans against the lamppost and whistles at the night.
Brian Wask, 2007
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Captain Nitwit
Then she too appears to doubt him. Set in Massachusetts and California, "Captain Nitwit" is a gently comic but disturbing coming-of-age novel, encompassing the 55th year of a man to whom, until now, nothing much has happened
C.D. Hopkins, 2009
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Precious - the Nitwit
This is a humorous tale or should we say tail. The story is based on the writer's dog. A small ball of fur; a cute and cuddly puppy. She is at the same time extremely dysfunctional. Loving and adoring one minute; obstinate the next minute.
George Ohler, 2009
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Nitwit
Clambo asked Windgate. "I thought he said his name was Gormen!" "Not him! I mean, him! Nitwit!" "We're back to that, again, hunh?" Clambo said with exasperation. "If all the seas were one sea, what a great sea that would be," Beatrice said.
Harold R. Miller, Nancy Cardinali, 2003
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Poems of the Deepwoods Nitwit!: And Tales of Way Back When
An entertaining poetry collection celebrating Southern life and times past.
Ethel Crownover, 2000
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The Secret Life of Insects: An Entomological Alphabet
In calling the Gnat a “nitwit,” therefore, I am not despising him or doing him any injustice. Rather, I am saying, to vary the Biblical phrase, “Go to school with the Gnat, thou nitwit!” For we human beings from the past twentieth century, who flatter ...
Peter Milward, 2011
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Nitwit Solutions: Human Nature and the Repeated Failure of ...
Nitwit Solutions: Human Nature and the Repeated Failure of Utopian Expectations, by Dr. Sula Kaufman, disputes current orthodoxy on human nature, ideals vs. personal behavior, and misguided Western ch
Sula Kaufman, 2009
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The Witch and the Magic Mountain
CALL OVER THE SHORES THE WHITE BIRD OF LIGHT SILENTLY SOARS WHITE BIRD, WHITE BIRD WHITE BIRD OF LIGHT. PASAZ. There's the Sea of Serpents. NITWIT. There's the Fisherman. CATO. There's the Forest of Night. PASAZ.
‎1991
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The Nitwits Come to Town
Find out in The Nitwits Come to Town.Jim Chrisman is an award-winning author having won the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Young Adult Fiction for Substitute Wizard.
Jim Chrisman, 2013
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A Preservative Against Popery, in Several Select Discourses ...
GENERAL. CONTENTS. /tut. 13. nitwit. OF THE ENGLISH REFORMATION. BOOK I. THE REFOMATION VINDICATED ON ACCOUNT OP THE NECESSITY OF IT. PAGE I. — A Discourse concerning the necessity of a Reformation with respect ...
Edmund Gibson, John Cumming, 1849

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NITWIT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term nitwit is used in the context of the following news items.
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If our Queen is a Nazi, she's a pretty rubbish one
... apparently giving that salute in the gardens at Balmoral in 1933 – alongside her mum and the nitwit future King Edward VIII – that our Queen ... «Daily Star, Jul 15»
2
Our Town: The emergence of the short beard
All we see on TV are sad little role models like Homer Simpson or the nitwit Dad on Married with Children or Edward Rooney the dumb Dean of ... «The Island Now, Jul 15»
3
Aamir Khan praises 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan'
Kabir Khan is largely being credited for helping Salman Khan break through the clutter of clichéd roles that came his way in nitwit comedies or ... «Rapid News Network, Jul 15»
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Prosecute Jonathan, Bayelsa APC tells Buhari
All this shows that an APC person, on average, is, at best, a delusional nitwit. It would have been helpfuf had APC had a REASONABLE person ... «Premium Times, Jul 15»
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Readers sound off on the Mets offense, Uber and NYPD numbers
Any nitwit who supports him also deserves opprobrium. This is another example of why the upper-class elite, who buy elections, should stay out ... «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
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Politics 2016: Yes, Virginia, there is no Aunt Jemima, Betty Crocker …
Those two folksy-nitwit wine merchants sometimes stood in a bog to demonstrate the elusive concept of “fresh fruit.” From 1984 to 1991 two ... «Chestnut Hill Local, Jul 15»
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Jon reviews his old crappy tweets
"Elsewhere"? Where else? There isn't a Part One to this, you just decided to kick off a story with "Elsewhere." You are a nitwit. «SB Nation, Jul 15»
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To Trump Disciples: You're Embarrassing Conservatism and …
Conservatives don't need another blubbering, narcissistic nitwit making a mockery of their positions. Conservatism doesn't need Donald Trump ... «TheBlaze.com, Jul 15»
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Mark Murphy: Jaguars “very reluctant” to move 2016 game vs …
Between all the nitwit players getting in trouble with the law and the nitwit owners and Commissioner sticking it to the fans, the NFL is heading ... «NBCSports.com, Jul 15»
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Kabir Khan and I are planning another film soon: Salman Khan
Kabir Khan is largely being credited for helping Salman Khan break through the clutter of clichéd roles that came his way in nitwit comedies or ... «Apun Ka Choice, Jul 15»
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