Antonyms 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.

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

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

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1. wit

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

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

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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, wit

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, wit, brain, head

3. wag, wit, cardnoun

   a witty amusing person who makes jokes

   Synonyms:
   calling card, mental capacity, wit, 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. witnoun

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

How to use WIT in a sentence?

1. James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview:

   The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

2. Jeb Bush:

   I'd say the guy with the quickest wit is, uh,( former Arkansas Gov. Mike) Huckabee. He's actually hilarious. Chris Christie is pretty funny as well -- in a different kind of style. You can imagine a governor from Arkansas is slightly different than the current governor of New Jersey, but they're both... pretty funny.

3. Butch Harmon:

   A class act, it's fun working with him. He has a quick wit, which fits with me. And he works hard. He was really good at one time and he got lost. I helped him find his way. Sometimes it's more than just the X's and O's of the swing.

4. Butler:

   Man is supreme lord and master Of his own ruin and disaster, Controls his fate, but nothing less In ordering his own happiness: For all his care and providence Is too feeble a defence To render it secure and certain Against the injuries of Fortune; And oft, in spite of all his wit, Is lost by one unlucky hit, And ruined with a circumstance, And mere punctilio of a chance.

5. Elmer Wheeler:

   The real wit tells jokes to make others feel superior, while the half-wit tells them to make others feel small.

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