Wit

Noun

 * 1)  Sanity.


 * 1) Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
 * 2) The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
 * 3) Intelligence; common sense.
 * 4) Spoken humour, especially when clever or quick.
 * 5) A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
 * 6)  The senses.

Verb

 * 1)  Know, be aware of.

Adjectives for Wit
licentious; shallow; out-of-fashion; undergraduate; blunted; scholarly; fresh; mellow; simple; bitter; obscene; mighty; sarcastic; keen; sprightly; mobile; caustic; courteous; admirable; perplexed; mixed; sparkling; comic; foolish; open; fastidious; paradoxical; sparkling; prodigal; unstrained; inexhaustible; insidious; conversational; vigorous; shrewd; homely; quick; trenchant; various (pi); inimitable; threadbare; human; metaphysic; crack-brained; unsea¬sonable; native; loyal; microscopic; shattered; merciless; strayed; rude; aimless; sharpened; diabolic; assured; fouled; fogged; worthless; acidulous; sluggish; sudden; acute; dextrous; light; confounded; spontaneous; verbal; alert; subtle; delicate; unpremeditated; ebullient; satirical; airy; incomparable; exhilarating; eminent; unmatched; vulgar; ready.

Verbs for Wit
clothe in—; dampen—; display—; draw—; dull—; exhibit—; grasp—; infuse—; inject —; kindle—; match—; pervert—; refine—; scatter—; sharpen—; tinge with—; — amuses; —beguiles; —bores; —cuts; —delights; —flashes; —flourishes; —flowers; — flows; —penetrates; —rebounds; —scathes; —scintillates; —shines; —sparkles; —totters; —victimizes.

Thesaurus
ESP, IQ, Italian hand, ability, acumen, acuteness, address, adeptness, adroitness, airmanship, alertness, apprehension, art, artfulness, artifice, artisanship, artistry, assume, astuteness, awareness, balance, banana, brain, brains, bravura, brilliance, burlesquer, cageyness, caliber, callidity, canniness, capability, capacity, caricaturist, clairvoyance, cleverness, clown, comedian, comic, command, competence, comprehension, conceit, conceive, conception, control, coordination, craft, craftiness, craftsmanship, cunning, cunningness, cutup, deductive power, deftness, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomacy, discernment, discrimination, divination, droll, efficiency, epigrammatist, esemplastic power, esprit, expertise, facility, fine Italian hand, finesse, foxiness, funnyman, gag writer, gagman, gagster, gamesmanship, gather, grace, grasp, gray matter, grip, guile, handiness, head, horsemanship, humor, humorist, ideation, imagine, ingeniousness, ingenuity, insidiousness, insight, integrative power, intellect, intellectual grasp, intellectual power, intellectualism, intellectuality, intelligence, intelligence quotient, inventiveness, ironist, jester, joker, jokesmith, jokester, keenness, know-how, knowledge, lampooner, lucidity, madcap, marbles, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, mental age, mental capacity, mental grasp, mental ratio, mentality, mind, mother wit, native wit, one-upmanship, parodist, penetration, perception, percipience, perspicacity, power of mind, practical ability, prankster, proficiency, prowess, prudence, punner, punster, quick-wittedness, quickness, quipster, rationality, readiness, reason, reasoning power, reckon, reparteeist, resource, resourcefulness, sagaciousness, sagacity, sageness, saneness, sanity, sapience, satanic cunning, satirist, savoir-faire, savvy, scope of mind, seamanship, sense, senses, sensing, sharpness, shiftiness, shrewdness, skill, skillfulness, slipperiness, slyness, smartness, sneakiness, sophistry, stealth, stealthiness, style, subtilty, subtleness, subtlety, suppleness, suppose, tact, tactfulness, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, think, thinking power, timing, trickiness, understanding, virtuosity, wag, wagwit, wariness, wiles, wiliness, wisdom, wisecracker, witlessness, witling, wizardry, workmanship, zany

Etymology 1
From, from witt:, from , from. Cognate with Dutch weet:, German Witz:, Danish vid:, Swedish vett:, Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌹:, Latin video:. Compare wise:.

Etymology 2
From witan:, from, from. Cognate with Dutch weten:, German wissen:, Swedish veta:, and Latin video:. Compare guide:.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:intelligence

Derived terms

 * collect one's wits
 * gather one's wits
 * have one’s wits about one


 * mother wit
 * native wit
 * scare out of one’s wits


 * witless
 * witling

Derived terms

 * to wit


 * unwitting

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Italian:


 * Spanish: ,


 * Armenian:
 * Italian: ingegno vivace,


 * Spanish: intelectualidad,


 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish:, , sutkaus
 * Italian: ,
 * Portuguese:, agudez


 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:, , , ,
 * Turkish: nükte


 * French:
 * Italian:


 * Spanish:, ,


 * German: Witzbold


 * Spanish: ,

Anagrams

 * Twi

Adjective

 * 1) white

Etymology
From wit:.

Cardinal number

 * 1) eight

Adjective

 * 1) white
 * De wand is wit.
 * The wall is white.

Noun

 * 1)  white
 * Wit is alle kleuren ineens.
 * White is all colors at once.
 * 1)  A person with blond hair.
 * De Witte van Zichem.
 * The blond boy from Zichem (a famous book).
 * 1)  cocaine
 * Heb je een halfje wit?

Derived terms

 * eiwit

Etymology
From *undefined: with unexpected shortening of the vowel, from.

Anagrams

 * Twi

Cardinal number

 * 1)  eight

Pronoun

 * 1) We two; nominative dual form of iċ.

Etymology
From, from , a suffixed form of (see we:). Cognate with Old Norse vit:, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐍄:, and Lithuanian vedu:.

Adjective

 * 1) wide

Etymology
From, whence also Old English wid: and Old Norse víðr:.