The meaning of wit

Answer 1

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. a. powers of intelligent observation, keen perception, ingenious contrivance, or the like; mental acuity, composure, and resourcefulness: using one's wits to get ahead. b. mental faculties; senses: to lose one's wits. -Idioms 6. at one's wit's end. end 1 (def. 33). 7. keep or 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. ---- == == # natural ability to perceive and understand; intelligence. # Keenness and quickness of perception or discernment; ingenuity ## wits Sound mental faculties : scared out of my wits. ## The ability to perceive and express in an ingeniously humorous manner the relationship between seemingly incongruous or disparate things. ## One noted for this ability, especially one skilled in repartee. ## A person of exceptional intelligence. # The ability to perceive and express in an ingeniously humorous manner the relationship between seemingly incongruous or disparate things. ## One noted for this ability, especially one skilled in repartee. ## A person of exceptional intelligence. Wit implies intellectual keenness and the ability to perceive and express in a diverting way analogies between dissimilar things

Sarcasm is a form of caustic wit intended to wound or ridicule another: "[His] tone seemed as if meant to be kind and soothing, but yet had a bitterness of sarcasm in it"

wit

mental capacity knowledge, understanding, intelligence, mind," Ger. Witz "wit, witticism, joke "A witty saying proves nothing." [Voltaire, Diner du Comte de Boulainvilliers]

wit

1. a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter 2. mental ability; 3. a witty amusing person who makes jokes