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wɪtwit

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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  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

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  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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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. witnoun

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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "wit":

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

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How to use wit in a sentence?

  1. Butler:

    All wit and fancy, like a diamond, The more exact and curious ?tis ground, Is forced for every carat to abate As much of value as it wants in weight.

  2. Duane Adair:

    Do you really think that old sleepy Joe Biden gives one wit about an oil spill? No, he doesn't, the helicopter that he rides, Air Force One, the vehicles that he transports in, I bet none of them are electric.

  3. Cherie Currie:

    Our darling mother Marie Harmon was a fantastic comedic actress! She never shared her movies with us kids. Had I known the great stock I came from I would have taken myself seriously as an actor, though she gave up the glitz to have us kids she never lost the glamour. A true star to the end and we will miss her beauty and wit every single day.

  4. Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett:

    Don't set your wit against a child.

  5. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina:

    She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.


Translations for wit

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  • خفة دمArabic
  • enteniment, ment, divertitCatalan, Valencian
  • důvtip, rozum, vtip, humorCzech
  • Witz, WitzboldGerman
  • chiste, agudeza, gracia, divertido, intelectualidad, ingenio, cordura, inteligencia, mordacidad, intelecto, imaginativo, humor, mentalidadSpanish
  • nokkeluus, sukkeluus, sutkausFinnish
  • petit malin, esprit, mot d'espritFrench
  • խելքArmenian
  • arguzia, senno, senso umoristico, spirito, motto di spirito, ingegno vivace, genioItalian
  • verstandDutch
  • vidd, forstand, vett, intellektNorwegian
  • dowcipPolish
  • agudeza, agudezPortuguese
  • schepsisRomanian
  • знать, остроу́мие, ра́зум, остря́к, ве́дать, умRussian
  • புத்திசாலித்தனம்Tamil
  • nükteTurkish

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