Quick and Witless

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Quick

Quick adjective - Having or showing quickness of mind.
Usage example: a quick lad, he immediately caught on to how the machinery operated
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Witless is an antonym for quick.
Nearby Words: quicken, quickly, quickness, quickie

Witless

Witless adjective - Not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily.
Usage example: a dog so witless that it is barely trainable
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Quick is an antonym for witless.
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  • Sir Percy Blakeney in the musical The Scarlet Pimpernel (and every other version of the story as well) is a quick-witted young man who pretends to be a witless fop, the better to hide his war against the excesses of the French Revolution.
    Source: Obfuscating Stupidity / Theatre
  • Subverted in Empowered where Thugboy and the other self-dubbed Witless Minions pretended to be this to aspiring supervillains so they could fleece their high-tech equipment (and administer some quick, unexpected justice whenever a supervillain tried to cross the Moral Event Horizon).
    Source: Surrounded by Idiots
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Witless and Quick. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/quick/witless
Quick & Witless. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/quick/witless>.
Witless or Quick. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/quick/witless.

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