Synonyms for wit
wɪtwit

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1. wit

   Wit is the quick perception of unusual or commonly unperceived analogies or relations between things apparently unrelated, and has been said to depend upon a union of surprise and pleasure; it depends certainly on the production of a diverting, entertaining, or merrymaking surprise. The analogies with which wit plays are often superficial or artificial; humor deals with real analogies of an amusing or entertaining kind, or with traits of character that are seen to have a comical side as soon as brought to view. Wit is keen, sudden, brief, and sometimes severe; humor is deep, thoughtful, sustained, and always kindly. Pleasantry is lighter and less vivid than wit. Fun denotes the merry results produced by wit and humor, or by any fortuitous occasion of mirth, and is pronounced and often hilarious.

   Synonyms:
   banter, burlesque, drollery, facetiousness, fun, humor, jest, jocularity, joke, playfulness, pleasantry, raillery, waggery, waggishness, witticism

   Antonyms:
   dulness, gravity, seriousness, sobriety, solemnity, stolidity, stupidity

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1. wit

   Synonyms:
   mind, intellect, sense, reason, understanding, humor, ingenuity, imagination

   Antonyms:
   mindlessness, senselessness, irrationality, dulness, stolidity, stupidity, inanity, doltishness, wash, vapidity, platitude, commonplace

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1. wit, humor, humour, witticism, wittinessnoun

   a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

   Synonyms:
   liquid body substance, temper, sense of humour, brain, learning ability, mental capacity, mood, brainpower, humor, wittiness, body fluid, mentality, sense of humor, witticism, humour, bodily fluid, card, wag

2. brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, witnoun

   mental ability

   "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense"

   Synonyms:
   wag, mindset, card, brainiac, mind-set, encephalon, learning ability, mental capacity, witticism, genius, brainpower, mastermind, outlook, humor, mind, wittiness, mentality, psyche, nous, humour, brain, head

3. wag, wit, cardnoun

   a witty amusing person who makes jokes

   Synonyms:
   calling card, mental capacity, humor, shake, brainpower, bill of fare, posting, board, wittiness, poster, identity card, notice, mentality, scorecard, brain, carte, menu, carte du jour, add-in, bill, plug-in, card, lineup, waggle, learning ability, batting order, circuit board, visiting card, witticism, wag, placard, humour, circuit card

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1. • Intelligence

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1. witnoun

   Synonyms:
   intellect, understanding, mind, sense, reason, genius, mental power, intellectual faculties, thinking principle

2. witnoun

   Synonyms:
   quick perception (as of partial resemblance in things mostly unlike), keen discernment

3. witnoun

   Synonyms:
   facetiousness, humor, fun, drollery, waggery, waggishness, jocularity, ATTIC SALT

4. witnoun

   Synonyms:
   humorist, wag

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1. witnoun

   Synonyms:
   sense, understanding, repartee, drollery, facetiousness, jocularity, waggishness, wag, humorist

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1. List of paraphrases for "wit":

   imr, tmi, spirit, ingenuity, waite, witt, mind, white, humour

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1. John Selden:

   No man is the wiser for his learning. It may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon, but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

2. Book of Common Prayer:

   There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted.

3. William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II scene 1:

   He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

4. Butler:

   Most virgins marry, just as nuns The same thing the same way renounce; Before they?ve wit to understand The bold attempt, they take in hand; Or, having stayed and lost their tides, Are out of season grown for brides.

5. Jean de La Bruyère:

   Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.