Definition of "light-witted" []

• Having a feeble or weak intellect.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The light-witted birds of the air, the beasts of the weald and the wood"
• "No one thought it wrong for a light-witted "captain of industry" who had led his workpeople into overproduction, into the disproportionate manufacture, that is to say, of some particular article, to abandon and dismiss them, nor was there anything to prevent the sudden frantic underselling of some trade rival in order to surprise and destroy his trade, secure his customers for one's own destined needs, and shift a portion of one's punishment upon him."
• "This: that the assassin was of inferior intelligence -- shall we say light-witted, or perhaps approaching that?"