midwit
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.
Noun
- 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.
- 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...
- A true paragon nation captures the midwit, get-the-news-from-Trevor-Noah demographic. - 2023 February 11, Janan Ganesh, “After Germany’s fall, which is the paragon nation?”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times...
- Congress is packed with midwits. There are no intellectuals in Congress. None could flourish in such a mediocre environment. - 2023 February 21, David Sinclair, The Wolf Tamers: How They Made the Strong Weak:
Origin
From mid- + wit; likely coined in line with nitwit, halfwit, etc.