- the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure.
- speech or writing showing such perception and expression.
- a person having or noted for such perception and expression.
- understanding, intelligence, or sagacity.
- 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.
- 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.
- to remain alert and observant; be prepared for or equal to anything: to keep your wits about you in a crisis.
- to provide for oneself by employing ingenuity or cunning; live precariously: We traveled around the world, living by our wits.
- to know.
- that is to say; namely: It was the time of the vernal equinox, to wit, the beginning of spring.
- the talent or quality of using unexpected associations between contrasting or disparate words or ideas to make a clever humorous effect
- speech or writing showing this quality
- a person possessing, showing, or noted for such an ability, esp in repartee
- practical intelligence (esp in the phrase have the wit to)
- information or knowledge (esp in the phrase get wit of)
- mental capacity or a person possessing it
- the mind or memory
- to be or become aware of (something)
- that is to say; namely (used to introduce statements, as in legal documents)
