wit

Plural: wits

Noun

• The capacity for inventive thought and quick, amusing verbal expression.
• a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
• mental ability
• a witty amusing person who makes jokes
• Sanity.
• The senses.
• Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
• The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
• Intelligence; common sense.
• Humour, especially when clever or quick.
• A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.

Verb

Verb Forms: wist, wot, wost, wite, witing, witting

• An archaic or literary term meaning 'to know'.
• To know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively).

Prep

• Pronunciation spelling of with.

Examples

• He's gone completely out of his wits.
• Her quick WIT allowed her to see a complex Scrabble play where others saw none.
• My father had a quick wit and a steady hand.
• The best man's speech was hilarious, full of wit and charm.
• The opportunity was right in front of you, and you didn't even have the wit to take it!
• They are meddling in matters that men should not wit of.
• To truly WIT the rules of competitive Words With Friends requires dedication and practice.
• Where she has gone to is beyond the wit of man to say.
• You committed terrible actions — to wit, murder and theft — and should be punished accordingly.
• Your friend is quite a wit, isn't he?

Synonyms

brain, brainpower, card, humor, humour, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wag, witticism, wittiness, repartee

Related Words

acid, biting, cutting, lambent, wit woo

Anagrams of wit