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Definitions for Wits

[1] the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure.
[2] speech or writing showing such perception and expression.
[3] a person having or noted for such perception and expression.
[4] understanding, intelligence, or sagacity; astuteness.
[5] Usually wits . powers of intelligent observation, keen perception, ingenious contrivance, or the like; mental acuity, composure, and resourcefulness: using one's wits to get ahead. mental faculties; senses: to lose one's wits; frightened out of one's wits.
[6] at one's wit's end . at the end of one's ideas or mental resources; perplexed: My two-year-old won't eat anything but pizza, and I'm at my wit's end.
[7] keep /have one's wits about one , to remain alert and observant; be prepared for or equal to anything: to keep your wits about you in a crisis.
[8] live by one's wits , to provide for oneself by employing ingenuity or cunning; live precariously: We traveled around the world, living by our wits.
[9] (sometimes singular) the ability to reason and act, esp quickly (esp in the phrase have one's wits about one )
[10] (sometimes singular) right mind, sanity (esp in the phrase out of one's wits )
[11] at one's wits' end at a loss to know how to proceed
[12] five wits obsolete the five senses or mental faculties
[13] live by one's wits to gain a livelihood by craftiness and cunning rather than by hard work
[14] Southern African informal University of the Witwatersrand
[15] the talent or quality of using unexpected associations between contrasting or disparate words or ideas to make a clever humorous effect
[16] speech or writing showing this quality
[17] a person possessing, showing, or noted for such an ability, esp in repartee
[18] practical intelligence (esp in the phrase have the wit to )
[19] Scot and Northern English dialect information or knowledge (esp in the phrase get wit of )
[20] archaic mental capacity or a person possessing it
[21] obsolete the mind or memory
[22] archaic to be or become aware of (something)
[23] to wit that is to say; namely (used to introduce statements, as in legal documents)

Words related to Wits

witfun, joke, satire, repartee, jest, wisecrack, pleasantry, prank, drollery, levity, lark, raillery, pun, aphorism, banter, burlesque, gag, sally, quip, jocularity

Words nearby Wits

witwist, wister, wisteria, wistful, wisła, wit, witan, witblits, witch, witch alder, witch ball

Origin of Wits

1First recorded before 900; Middle English, Old English: “mind, thought”; cognate with German Witz, Old Norse vit; akin to wit2

Words that may be confused with Wits

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, witwhit, wit

Word origin for Wits

Old English witan; related to Old High German wizzan (German wissen ), Old Norse vita, Latin vidēre to see

Synonyms for Wits

fun, joke, satire, aphorism, badinage, banter, burlesque, drollery, facetiousness, gag, jest, jocularity, lark, levity, pleasantry, prank, pun, quip, raillery, repartee, sally, trick, whimsicality, wisecrack, wittiness, wordplay, bon mot, practical joke