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Slow-witted   /sloʊ-wˈɪtɪd/   Listen
Slow-witted

adjective
1.
Retarded in intellectual development.  Synonyms: backward, feebleminded, half-witted.



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"Slow-witted" Quotes from Famous Books



... conventions which hold her sex in bondage, she would have deemed it unwomanly to make advances by any means other than innuendo, the subtle suggestions which are the instruments of her sex, but which are often too delicate to pierce the understanding of the obtuse and slow-witted male. ...
— The Wonder • J. D. Beresford
... these verses before him, in either Suetonius or some other work, but seems to have been too slow-witted to appreciate the double entendre in subegit, which may signify voluptuary as well as military prowess. Hence, though he might have turned the expression exactly by [Greek: hupaegageto] he contented himself with the ...
— Dio's Rome • Cassius Dio


Words linked to "Slow-witted" :   archaism, backward, feebleminded, half-witted, retarded, archaicism


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