Definition of
Wit
- (noun, cognition) mental ability
- (noun, communication) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- (noun, person) a witty amusing person who makes jokes
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Synonyms of Wit
brain, brainpower, card, humor, humour, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wag, witticism, wittiness
Alternate forms of Wit
Derivations: witty
Hyponyms: bite, bon mot, caricature, cartoon, caustic remark, esprit de l'escalier, fun, gag, imitation, impersonation, irony, jape, jest, jeu d'esprit, joke, laugh, mot, play, pungency, repartee, ribaldry, sarcasm, satire, sketch, sport, topper
Hypernyms: content, humorist, humourist, intelligence, message, subject matter, substance
Origin of the word Wit
- "mental capacity," O.E. wit, more commonly gewit, from P.Gmc. *witjan (cf. O.S. wit, O.N. vit, Dan. vid, Swed. vett, O.Fris. wit, O.H.G. wizzi "knowledge, understanding, intelligence, mind," Ger. Witz "wit, witticism, joke," Goth. unwiti "ignorance"), from PIE *woid-/*weid-/*wid- "to see," metap… more
- "know," O.E. witan "to know," from P.Gmc. *witanan "to have seen," hence "to know" (cf. O.S. witan, O.N. vita, O.Fris. wita, M.Du., Du. weten, O.H.G. wizzan, Ger. wissen, Goth. witan "to know"); see wit (n.). The phrase to wit, almost the only surviving use of the verb, is first recorded 1577, from earlier
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Words that sound like Wit
4wd, wad, wade, wadi, wait, waite, watt, watteau, way out, way-out, wed, wedded, weed, weed out, weedy, wet, wheat, whet, whidah, whit, white, white heat, white out, white tai, white tie, white titi, white-hot, white-out, white-tie, whitehead, whiteout, whitewood, whitey, whydah, wide
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