Definitions for WIT

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WIT wit

Spelling: [wit]

IPA: /wɪt/

Wit is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in WIT (itw).

Definitions for WIT

noun

1. the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee.
2. speech or writing showing such perception and expression. Synonyms: banter, joking, witticism, quip, raillery, badinage, persiflage; bon mot.
3. a person having or noted for such perception and expression. Synonyms: wag, jester, epigrammatist, satirist.
4. understanding, intelligence, or sagacity; astuteness. Synonyms: wisdom, sense, mind.
5. Usually, wits. powers of intelligent observation, keen perception, ingenious contrivance, or the like; mental acuity, composure, and resourcefulness: Synonyms: cleverness, cunning, wisdom, insight, perspicacity, sacaciousness, acumen. mental faculties; senses: Synonyms: mind, sanity; brains, marbles.

Idioms

1. at one's wit's end, at the end of one's ideas or mental resources; perplexed:
2. keep / have one's wits about one, to remain alert and observant; be prepared for or equal to anything:
3. live by one's wits, to provide for oneself by employing ingenuity or cunning; live precariously:
4. to wit, that is to say; namely:

verb (used with or without object)

1. Archaic. to know.

Origin of WIT

before 900; Middle English, Old English: mind, thought; cognate with German Witz, Old Norse vit; akin to wit²

Examples for WIT

In all the stand up there, wit' their flounces and jewels, there isn't a lady like her.

He was renowned for his wit, disarming his critics with unfailing humor.

She was quick of wit, and she read his tone as well as his words.

Renowned livestock specialist and autism advocate Temple Grandin brought her unique intellect and wit to Reddit.

I wonder that they have not wit to learn English now that they have come under the English crown.

wit, lad, is a catching thing, like the itch or the sweating sickness.

It was a circle of exceptionally bright teenagers who revelled equally in wit and in culture.

with twice as many British soldiers, Washington was in for a fiercely competitive battle of wit and strength.

Amid our grief we now see that New York had been distracted by flash and wit and cash for too long.

It is Mary Fitton who has "wit and invention," and is "an admirable musician."