Definition of NITTY

nitty

Plural: nitties

Adj

  • Full of nits.
  • Foolish, inane.
  • detailed or specific; fastidious, fussy, nit-picky.
  • Of a poker player: playing in an overly cautious and reactive manner.
  • Shining; elegant, spruce.

Noun

  • A dope fiend, a druggie.

Adjective

  • Full of nits; infested with lice eggs.

Examples

  • We got into the nitty-gritty of the game, debating whether ’NITTY’ was a valid play.

Origin / Etymology

From nit + -y. The “foolish, inane” adjective sense is from nit (“fool, nitwit”), possibly under the influence of nutty (“crazy, mad”).
The origin of the noun sense (“dope fiend, druggie”) is unknown, but could refer to a person who is under the influence of drugs to the extent that he or she is careless about personal hygiene and unkempt. Compare the verb nit (“to be a nitty”).

Synonyms

Boeotian, abuser, addict, addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, anal-retentive, asinine, ass-brained, balmy, barmy, bedaft, bee-brained, beef-witted, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained, blockheaded, boneheaded, boofheaded, brainless, bubbleheaded, buffle-headed, bullet-headed, cerebrally challenged, childish, choosy, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, conscientious, crackbrained, crackpot, cretinous, daft, dainty, dense, dented, derpy, dim, dim-bulb, dim-headed, dim-witted, doltish, dopey, dozy, drowsy, dull, dull-headed, dull-minded, dull-witted, dumb, dumb as a bag of hammers, dumb as a box of rocks, dumb as a doorknob, dumb as a post, dumb as a sack of hammers, dumb as an ox, dumb as dirt, dumber than a box of rocks, dumber than a rock, duncical, dunderheaded, empty-headed, exacting, fastidious, fatheaded, fatuous, feeble-minded, fiend, finical, finicking, finickity, finicky, finikin, flea-brained, foolish, fuckwitted, fussy, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gauvison, goofy, half-brained, half-witted, hammer-headed, hypercritical, idiotic, idle, imbecilic, inane, insipid, insipient, intellectually challenged, knuckleheaded, lamebrained, lily-handed, loony, lousy, lowbrow, lumpish, lunkheaded, mentally challenged, mentally retarded, meticulous, mindless, monosynaptic, mookish, moronic, muttonheaded, naive, niggly, nit-picky, nitpickish, nitty, nitwitted, not the sharpest crayon in the box, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not the sharpest tool in the shed, numbskulled, oafish, obtuse, overcritical, overscrupulous, particular, peabrained, pedantic, pernickety, persnickety, picky, pratty, pudding-headed, puerile, purblind, quarter-witted, retarded, rockheaded, sharp as a bowling ball, sheep-headed, shit-for-brains, silly, simple, slave, slight, slow, slow-witted, smooth-brained, soft in the head, softheaded, sottish, stolid, stupid, thick, thick as a brick, thick as a plank, thick as a whale omelette, thick as champ, thick as mince, thick as pig shit, thick as two short planks, thick-skulled, thickheaded, thickwitted, unapprehensive, unclever, unintelligent, unsage, unsmart, unwise, vacant, vacuous, wastoid, witless, wooden-headed, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded

Scrabble Score: 8

nitty: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
nitty: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
nitty: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

nitty: valid Words With Friends Word