Word Meanings - WANTWIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak.

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• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• BLOCKHEADED
  Stupid; dull.
• DESTITUTENESS
  Destitution. Ash.
• BLOCKHEAD
  A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pope.
• DESTITUTE
  1. Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of. In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. Ps. cxli. 8. Totally destitute of all shadow of influence. Burke.
• SENSEFUL
  Full of sense, meaning, or reason; reasonable; judicious. "Senseful speech." Spenser. "Men, otherwise senseful and ingenious." Norris.
• BLOCKHEADISM
  That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity. Carlyle.
• DESTITUTELY
  In destitution.
• SENSELESS
  Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable. You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things. Shak. The ears are senseless that should give us hearing.
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• NONSENSE
  1. That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity. 2. Trifles; things of no importance. Nonsense verses, lines made by taking any words which occur,
• COMMON SENSE
  See SENSE
• UNSENSED
  Wanting a distinct meaning; having no certain signification. Puller.