ALL meanings of wit
wit
W w - noun wit clever humour 1
- noun wit good sense 1
- noun wit cleverly humorous person 1
- noun wit the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee. 1
- noun wit speech or writing showing such perception and expression. Synonyms: banter, joking, witticism, quip, raillery, badinage, persiflage; bon mot. 1
- noun wit a person having or noted for such perception and expression. Synonyms: wag, jester, epigrammatist, satirist. 1
- noun wit understanding, intelligence, or sagacity; astuteness. Synonyms: wisdom, sense, mind. 1
- noun wit Usually, wits. powers of intelligent observation, keen perception, ingenious contrivance, or the like; mental acuity, composure, and resourcefulness: using one's wits to get ahead. Synonyms: cleverness, cunning, wisdom, insight, perspicacity, sacaciousness, acumen. mental faculties; senses: to lose one's wits; frightened out of one's wits. Synonyms: mind, sanity; brains, marbles. 1
- idioms wit to wit, that is to say; namely: It was the time of the vernal equinox, to wit, the beginning of spring. 1
- noun wit Mental sharpness and inventiveness; keen intelligence. 1
- uncountable noun wit Wit is the ability to use words or ideas in an amusing, clever, and imaginative way. 0
- countable noun wit If you describe someone as a wit, you mean that they have the ability to use words or ideas in an amusing, clever, and imaginative way. 0
- singular noun wit If you say that someone has the wit to do something, you mean that they have the intelligence and understanding to make the right decision or take the right action in a particular situation. 0
- noun plural wit You can refer to your ability to think quickly and cleverly in a difficult situation as your wits. 0
- noun plural wit You can use wits in expressions such as frighten someone out of their wits and scare the wits out of someone to emphasize that a person or thing worries or frightens someone very much. 0
- noun wit the talent or quality of using unexpected associations between contrasting or disparate words or ideas to make a clever humorous effect 0
- noun wit speech or writing showing this quality 0
- noun wit a person possessing, showing, or noted for such an ability, esp in repartee 0
- noun wit practical intelligence (esp in the phrase have the wit to) 0
- noun wit information or knowledge (esp in the phrase get wit of) 0
- noun wit mental capacity or a person possessing it 0
- noun wit the mind or memory 0
- verb wit to be or become aware of (something) 0
- noun wit the mind 0
- noun wit powers of thinking and reasoning; intellectual and perceptive powers 0
- noun wit mental faculties with respect to their state of balance, esp. in their normal condition of sanity 0
- noun wit alert, practical intelligence; good sense 0
- noun wit the ability to make lively, clever remarks in a sharp, amusing way 0
- noun wit the ability to perceive incongruous relationships and express them in a surprising or epigrammatic manner 0
- noun wit a person characterized by wit 0
- noun wit writing or speech expressing wit; esp., any clever disparagement or raillery 0
- noun wit intellect; reason 0
- verb transitive wit to know or learn 0
- noun wit (now usually in the plural) Sanity. 0
- noun wit (obsolete usually in the plural) The senses. 0
- noun wit Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning. 0
- noun wit The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints. 0
- noun wit Intelligence; common sense. 0
- noun wit Humour, especially when clever or quick. 0
- noun wit A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty. 0
- verb wit (Transitive Verb) VI (chiefly archaic) Know, be aware of (construed with of when used intransitively). 0
- preposition wit (Southern US) Alternative spelling of with. 0