as in idiot
a stupid person
you're a dimwit if you think I'll sell my house for that price
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Recent Examples of dimwit
Michelle is a heartless professional and sees this as a battle between the wits (herself) and the dimwits (her captors).
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Randy Myers, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
The same goes for Hauser’s thankless role as Ed Hocken Jr., who plays straight man to Frank’s self-serious dimwit, when the writers remember to include him.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2025
Weekend baseball: The overachieving Miami Marlins continue to make preseason MLB prognosticators look like dimwits — as do the iconic New York Yankees, for different reasons.
—Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 30 July 2025
The movie may be about violent dimwits, but there’s a blue-collar purity to its vision of working-class dudes who have nothing else in their lives, and director Michael Dowse shows such affection for these goons that the feeling is contagious.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2024
With LaPierre’s encouragement and assistance, tens of thousands of dimwits, drunks, rage-a-holics, paranoids, domestic abusers and everyday incompetents have been armed and sent into America’s streets, ballparks, schools, churches and bars.
—Francis Wilkinson, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
That might be a stretch, but DiCaprio is terrific as the gullible dimwit who falls under his uncle’s spell and helps plot the murders of his Osage wife’s family.
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2024
His male protagonists continue to fail their significant others even when given multiple chances to reverse that pattern: a paradigm even more fraught if the protagonist is a white dimwit and his wife a long-suffering Osage.
—Jim Shepard, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dimwit
Noun
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Overwhelmingly, though, the most common response was to seek confirmation of their suspicions that Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were morons.—
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There are worse things than watching Black, Rudd, and Zahn play three gormless morons on a mid-life misadventure, but almost every scene and setpiece is constructed with a haphazardness that blunders away their charm.—
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So, the parallel thing that I’ve been frustrated by recently is not just calling Trump stupid, but calling Trump voters stupid.—
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Sometimes too stupid is actually smartski but sometimes is just stupid stupid.—
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“Dimwit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dimwit. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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