hebete

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See also: hébété and hébète

English

Etymology

From Latin hebes, hebetis (“dull, stupid”), from hebere (“to be dull”).

Adjective

hebete (comparative more hebete, superlative most hebete)

  1. (obsolete) dull; stupid

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hebete”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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