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Definition of 'wit'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) . Compare (m).
Noun
( en-noun)
Sanity.
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The senses.
Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
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The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
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Intelligence; common sense.
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Humour, especially when clever or quick.
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A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
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Synonyms
* See also
Derived terms
* brevity is the soul of wit
* collect one's wits
* gather one's wits
* have one’s wits about one
* inwit
( rel-mid3)
* mother wit
* native wit
* scare out of one’s wits
* witcraft
* witful
( rel-mid3)
* witless
* witling
* witter
* wittol
* witticism
( rel-bottom)
See also
(type of humor)
* acid
* biting
* cutting
* lambent
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Compare (m).
Verb
( head)
(ambitransitive|chiefly|archaic) Know, be aware of .
- You committed terrible actions — to wit , murder and theft — and should be punished accordingly.
- They are meddling in matters that men should not wit of.
* 1849 , , St. Luke the Painter , lines 5–8
- but soon having wist
- How sky-breadth and field-silence and this day
- Are symbols also in some deeper way,
- She looked through these to God and was God’s priest.
Conjugation
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! Infinitive
| to wit
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! Imperative
| wit
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! Present participle
| witting
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! Past participle
| wist
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! Present indicative
! Past indicative
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! First-person singular
| I wot
| I wist
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! Second-person singular
| thou wost, wot(test) (archaic); you wot
| thou wist(est) (archaic), you wist
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! Third-person singular
| he/she/it wot
| he/she/it wist
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! First-person plural
| we wit(e)
| we wist
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! Second-person plural
| ye wit(e) (archaic); you wit(e)
| ye wist (archaic), you wist
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! Third-person plural
| they wit(e)
| they wist
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Usage notes
* As a preterite-present verb, the third-person singular indicative form is not .
Derived terms
* to wit
* unwitting
* witness
Etymology 3
From English with.
Similar to 'wit'what, wet, wat, watt, wait, whet, whit, woot, wot, weet, wut, whot, wott
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