wit

wit

to wit (see below for this verb’s conjugation)

1. (ambitransitive, chiefly archaic) Know, be aware of (construed with of when used intransitively).

   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, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 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.

wit (plural wits)

1. (now usually in the plural) Sanity.

   Hes gone completely out of his wits.

2. (obsolete usually in the plural) The senses.
3. Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.

   Where she has gone to is beyond the wit of man to say.

4. The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.

   My father had a quick wit and a steady hand.

5. Intelligence; common sense.

   The opportunity was right in front of you, and you didnt even have the wit to take it!

6. Spoken humour, especially when clever or quick.

   The best mans speech was hilarious, full of wit and charm.

7. A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.

   Your friend is quite a wit, isnt he?

wit (personal)

1. We two; nominative dual form of i?.

wit

1. white

wit

1. eight

	arguzia
	intellectual ability
	Ability to think quickly

	genio
	Ability to think quickly

	ingegno vivace
	intellectual ability

	intelletto
	La capacità di pensare in modo razionale.
	The ability for rational thought.

	senno
	mind; sanity

	senso umoristico
	Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly

burlone

cioè

giovialone

giudizio

ingegno

intelligenza

sale

spirito

umore

Altri significati:

(now usually in the plural) Sanity.

Spoken humour, especially when clever or quick.

(ambitransitive, chiefly archaic) Know, be aware of (construed with of when used intransitively).

A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes

A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.

Intelligence; common sense.

The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.

Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.

(obsolete usually in the plural) The senses.

(quick or ready) wit

Traduzione 'veloce'

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