wit
- wit
- [[t]wɪ̱t[/t]]
wits
1) N-UNCOUNT Wit is the ability to use words or ideas in an amusing, clever, and imaginative way.
Boulding was known for his biting wit...
They love her practical attitude to life, her zest and wit.
2) N-COUNT If you describe someone as a wit, you mean that they have the ability to use words or ideas in an amusing, clever, and imaginative way.
Holmes was gregarious, a great wit, a man of wide interests.
3)
N-SING: the N
to-inf If you say that someone has
the wit to do something, you mean that they have the intelligence and understanding to make the right decision or take the right action in a particular situation.
The information is there and waiting to be accessed by anyone with the wit to use it.
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4)
N-PLURAL: usu
poss N You can refer to your ability to think quickly and cleverly in a difficult situation as your
wits.
She has used her wits to progress to the position she holds today.
5)
N-PLURAL: usu out of
poss N (
emphasis) You can use
wits in expressions such as
frighten someone out of their wits and
scare the wits out of someone to emphasize that a person or thing worries or frightens someone very much.
You scared us out of our wits. We heard you had an accident.
...a huge bass drum which frightened the wits out of the organist each time it was banged.
Syn:
6)
PHRASE: V inflects If you
have your
wits about you or
keep your
wits about you, you are alert and ready to act in a difficult situation.
Travellers need to keep their wits about them.
7)
PHRASE: usu
v-link PHR (
emphasis) If you say that you are
at your
wits' end, you are emphasizing that you are so worried and exhausted by problems or difficulties that you do not know what to do next.
We row a lot and we never have time on our own. I'm at my wit's end.
8)
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR
n If you
pit your
wits against someone, you compete against them in a test of knowledge or intelligence.
He has to pit his wits against an adversary who is cool, clever and cunning.
9)
PHRASE: PHR with
cl, PHR
n To wit is used to indicate that you are about to state or describe something more precisely. [LITERARY]
He'd like `happiness' to be given a new and more scientifically descriptive label, to wit `Major affective disorder, pleasant type'.
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