Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nitwittish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: nitwit-tish
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Somewhat like a nitwit.

Example Sentences

"After college she had discarded men as “horrid” and B.D. remembered poignantly her nitwittish young woman friend who had discarded Gretchen."

Etymology

From nitwit + -ish.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: nitwit

Inflected Forms

more nitwittish (comparative) most nitwittish (superlative)

Questions

What does nitwittish mean?: Somewhat like a nitwit.
Where does nitwittish come from?: From nitwit + -ish.

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