Synonyms of the word wit


WITBRAIN - BRAINPOWER - CARD - CONTENT - HUMOR - HUMORIST - HUMOUR - HUMOURIST - INTELLIGENCE - MENTALITY - MESSAGE - SUBSTANCE - WAG - WITTICISM - WITTINESS

wit

  • n. (now usually in the plural) Sanity.
  • n. (obsolete usually in the plural) The senses.
  • n. Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
  • n. The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
  • n. Intelligence; common sense.
  • n. Humour, especially when clever or quick.
  • n. A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, chiefly archaic) Know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively).
  • prep. (Southern US) Alternative spelling of with.

brain

  • n. The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible…
  • n. (informal) An intelligent person.
  • n. (in the plural) Intellect.
  • n. By analogy with a human brain, the part of a machine or computer that performs calculations.
  • n. (slang, vulgar) oral sex.
  • v. (transitive) To dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To strike (someone) on the head.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To destroy; to put an end to.
  • v. (transitive) To conceive in the mind; to understand.

brainpower

  • n. Mental ability; intelligence.
  • n. Intelligent people considered as a group.

card

  • n. A playing card.
  • n. (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
  • n. A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose.
  • n. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
  • n. (obsolete) A map or chart.
  • n. (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentrically so.
  • n. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.
  • n. (cricket) A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how…
  • n. (computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide…
  • n. A greeting card.
  • n. A business card.
  • n. (television) Title card / Intertitle: A piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed…
  • n. test card.
  • n. (dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
  • n. (dated) A printed programme.
  • n. (dated, figuratively, by extension) An attraction or inducement.
  • n. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
  • n. (weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus…
  • n. An indicator card.
  • v. (US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
  • v. (dated) To play cards.
  • n. (uncountable, dated) Material with embedded short wire bristles.
  • n. (dated, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
  • n. (textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material…
  • n. (dated, textiles) A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
  • n. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
  • v. (textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
  • v. To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
  • v. (transitive) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
  • n. Abbreviation of cardinal. (songbird).

content

  • n. (uncountable) That which is contained.
  • n. Subject matter; that which is contained in writing or speech.
  • n. The amount of material contained; contents.
  • n. Capacity for holding.
  • n. (mathematics) The n-dimensional space contained by an n-dimensional polytope (called volume in the case…
  • adj. Satisfied about a particular circumstance; thus, in a state of satisfaction.
  • interj. (archaic) Alright, agreed.
  • n. Satisfaction; contentment.
  • n. (obsolete) acquiescence without examination.
  • n. That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
  • n. (Britain, House of Lords) An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmate vote.
  • n. (Britain, House of Lords) A member who votes in assent.
  • v. (transitive) To give contentment or satisfaction; to satisfy; to make happy.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.

humor

  • n. American spelling of humour.
  • v. American spelling of humour.

humorist

  • n. A person who writes or performs humorous material.

humour

  • n. (uncountable) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
  • n. (uncountable) A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by…
  • n. (archaic or historical) Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of…
  • n. (medicine) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
  • n. (obsolete) Moist vapour, moisture.
  • v. (transitive) To pacify by indulging.

humourist

  • n. (Britain) Alternative spelling of humorist.

intelligence

  • n. (uncountable) Capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire…
  • n. (countable) An entity that has such capacities.
  • n. (uncountable) Information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.
  • n. (countable) A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually…
  • n. (dated) Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.

mentality

  • n. A mindset; a way of thinking.

message

  • n. A communication, or what is communicated; any concept or information conveyed.
  • n. An underlying theme or conclusion to be drawn from something.
  • v. To send a message to; to transmit a message to, e.g. as text via a cell phone.
  • v. To send (something) as a message; usually refers to electronic messaging.
  • v. (intransitive) To send a message or messages; to be capable of sending messages.
  • v. (obsolete) To bear as a message.

substance

  • n. Physical matter; material.
  • n. The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
  • n. Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
  • n. Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
  • n. A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
  • n. Drugs (illegal narcotics).
  • n. (theology) Hypostasis.

wag

  • v. To swing from side to side, such as of an animal's tail, or someone's head, to express disagreement or…
  • v. (Britain, Australia, slang) To play truant from school.
  • v. (obsolete) To be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to progress; to stir.
  • v. (obsolete) To go; to depart.
  • n. An oscillating movement.
  • n. A witty person.

witticism

  • n. a witty remark.

wittiness

  • n. the quality of being witty.

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