WIT


Meaning of WIT in English

(·inf) of wit.

2. wit ·v mind; intellect; understanding; sense.

3. wit ·noun to know; to learn.

4. wit ·v a person of eminent sense or knowledge; a man of genius, fancy, or humor; one distinguished for bright or amusing sayings, for repartee, and the like.

5. wit ·v felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also. the power of readily combining objects in such a manner.

6. wit ·v a mental faculty, or power of the mind;

— used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one's wits; at one's wits' end, and the like.

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