Usually means: Lacking awareness or thoughtfulness; foolish.
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  1. witlessly: Merriam-Webster
  2. witlessly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. witlessly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. witlessly: Vocabulary.com
  5. witlessly: Wordnik
  6. witlessly: Wiktionary
  7. witlessly: Dictionary.com
  8. witlessly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. witlessly: FreeDictionary.org
  10. witlessly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. witlessly: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  in a witless manner

Similar:
will-lessly, awelessly, lustlessly, worthlessly, wretchlessly, consciencelessly, unwittily, wronglessly, worldlessly, senselessly, more...

Opposite:
intelligently, cleverly, astutely, shrewdly

Types:
foolishly, stupidly, idiotically, dumbly, madly, silly, more...

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Similar:
will-lessly, awelessly, lustlessly, worthlessly, wretchlessly, consciencelessly, unwittily, wronglessly, worldlessly, senselessly, more...

Opposite:
intelligently, cleverly, astutely, shrewdly

Types:
foolishly, stupidly, idiotically, dumbly, madly, silly, more...



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