midwit
/ˈmɪdwɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person of middling intellect; someone who is neither particularly dull nor particularly smart, especially if they act as though they are smarter than they are.
Derogatory
Example Sentences
- "At no point in this process does the midwit have to review information for himself or consider ideas in abstract. […] How then should we not be midwits? Painting with broad strokes: avoid media. Cultivate taste. Grow and train your sense of aesthetics. Recognize beauty. Practice virtue. Pray."
- "A true paragon nation captures the midwit, get-the-news-from-Trevor-Noah demographic."
- "Congress is packed with midwits. There are no intellectuals in Congress. None could flourish in such a mediocre environment."
- "Online, people make fun of midwits with a specific meme format: an IQ bell curve, with a character placed at each extreme and one above the bulge in the middle. […] One example of the midwit trap is investing. Above, the midwit – perhaps a Reddit-browsing amateur trader, or the solid kind of chap who works in wealth management – will go on about hot stocks and market conditions."
- "It is still a midwit dinner party applause line that such and such a percentage of Americans don't have passports."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *me Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe Proto-Indo-European *médʰi Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos Proto-Germanic *midjaz Proto-West Germanic *midi Old English midd Middle English mid English mid English mid- Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *wóyde Proto-Germanic *witaną Proto-Germanic *witją Proto-West Germanic *witi Old English witt Middle English wit English wit English midwit From mid- + wit; likely coined in line with nitwit, halfwit, etc.