slow-witted
adjective
Slow to understand, think, or learn; stupid: the slow-witted interviewer failed to pounce on his remarks...
- Should she confess that she did not understand a word said, she would be taken for a slow-witted nut.
- A dunce, according to the dictionary, is "one who is slow-witted or stupid."
- Should the clever and greedy be permitted to prey on the slow-witted and foolish?
Derivatives
slow-wittedness
/ noun- have-been
- have been around
- have been around the block (a few times)
- have been known to do something
- have been there before
- have blood on one's hands
- have clean hands
- have designs on
- have every confidence in
- have everything
- have eyes bigger than one's stomach (or belly)
- have eyes in the back of one's head
- have eyes like a hawk
- have eyes like saucers
- have got
- have-got
- have (got) a good head on one's shoulders
- have (got) another think coming
- have got it bad (or badly)
- have (got) it in for
- have (got) it in one (to do something)
- have (got) it made
- have (got) no idea
- have (got) nothing on
- have (got) someone's back