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wit Definition


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wit1
noun
    1. The ability to express oneself amusingly; humour.
      Thesaurus: humour, whimsicality, drollery, banter, repartee.
    2. Someone who has this ability.
      Thesaurus: comedian, humorist, banterer, life of the party, wisecracker (slang), wise guy (slang).
    3. Humorous speech or writing.
    4. Common sense or intelligence or resourcefulness
      Example: will he have the wit to phone?
      Thesaurus: cleverness, intelligence, intellect, reason, discernment, common sense, brains, judgement, faculties, sense, comprehension, smarts (US slang); Antonym: stupidity.
      Form: wits (also)
Idiom: at one's wits' end
    colloq
    Reduced to despair; completely at a loss.
      Thesaurus: desperate, helpless, hopeless, at the end of one's tether, at the end of one's rope (US), troubled, downhearted.
Idiom: have one's wits about one (keep one's wits about one)
    To be, or stay, alert.
Idiom: live by one's wits
    To live by cunning.
Idiom: scared etc out of one's wits
    Extremely scared, etc.
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon, meaning ‘mind' or ‘thought'.




wit2
verb
    wot, wist, witting
    1. archaic
      To know how; to discern.
Idiom: to wit
    That is to say; namely.
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon witan to know.



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