Definitions for ready-witted

ready-witted read·y-wit·ted

Spelling: [red-ee-wit-id]
IPA: /ˈrɛd iˈwɪt ɪd/

Ready-Witted is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 428 anagrams from letters in ready-witted (-addeeirttwy).

Definitions for ready-witted

adjective

  1. having a quick wit or intelligence.

Origin of ready-witted

First recorded in 1575-85

Examples for ready-witted

He was usually a ready-witted man, but now he found himself stammering almost incoherently.

He could not have foreseen that the ready-witted Lola was there, nor that she should have so ingeniously given the alarm.

"We've been married seven years, Olly," said the quick-eared and ready-witted Arthur.

But he was beautiful to look at, ready-witted, and intelligent.

She was ready-witted too, prompt in action, gifted with a certain fire.

Poor, underfed and oversmart children; ready-witted and half-witted.

These were supposed to show how popular and how ready-witted he was.

The ready-witted Elia often took the creature out with him when walking at Enfield.

Barney was shrewd and ready-witted, while Hans, for all of his speech and his blundering ways, was much brighter than he appeared.

He was cruelly assured of the fact by the hostile and ready-witted whistler.

Word Value for ready-witted
Scrable

9

Words with friends

8

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