单词 | half-wit |
释义 | half-wit (once / 57376 pages) n WORD FAMILY half-wit: half-wits USAGE EXAMPLES“Who’s the half-wit now? I meant the Mujahideen, Laila. Their coming to Kabul.” Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007) At length a bumbling hairy half-wit was brought in for questioning. John Steinbeck, East of Eden(1952) Better his precious baby Cora grow up with new parents who could give her everything she wanted than with a half-wit like him. Lisa Graff, A Tangle of Knots(2013) 1n a person of subnormal intelligence Syn|Hypo|Hyper changeling, cretin, idiot, imbecile, moron, retard mongoloid a person suffering from Down syndrome (no longer used technically in this sense) simple, simpleton a person lacking intelligence or common sense 2n a stupid incompetent person Syn|Hyper dimwit, doofus, nitwit simple, simpleton a person lacking intelligence or common sense |
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