Midwit

Quick meaning: Midwit is a noun meaning (neologism, chiefly Internet slang, mildly derogatory) 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.

Meaning

(neologism, chiefly Internet slang, mildly derogatory) 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.

Example Sentences

A true paragon nation captures the midwit, get-the-news-from-Trevor-Noah demographic.

It is still a midwit dinner party applause line that such and such a percentage of Americans don't have passports.

Congress is packed with midwits. There are no intellectuals in Congress. None could flourish in such a mediocre environment.

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.

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dimwit, halfwit, midshit, half-wit, mediot, thickwit.

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