Definition of wist in English Turkish dictionary
- wit
- ince zekâ
Ben senin ince zekana sahip değilim.
-I don't have your wit.
- wit
- ince espri
İnce espri konuşmaya lezzet verir.
-Wit gives zest to conversation.
O kitabı yazan kişi hem mizah hem de ince espriye sahiptir, değil mi?
-The person who wrote that book is possessed of both humour and wit, isn't he?
- wit
- nükte
Eski arkadaşının fişini çekerken, herkes ölür dedi genellikle nükteci doktor.
-Everybody dies, said the usually witty doctor as he pulled the plug on his old friend.
Tom sık sık nükte yapar.
-Tom frequently makes witty remarks.
- wit
- zeka kıvraklığı
- wit
- akıl
O, onunla tartışmayacak kadar akıllıdır.
-She knows better than to argue with him.
Tüm insanlar özgür, şeref ve haklar bakımından eşit doğar. Akıl ve vicdana sahiplerdir ve birbirlerine karşı kardeşlik ruhuyla hareket etmelidir.
-All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
- wit
- farkında olmak
- wit
- nüktecilik
- wit
- espritüel kimse
- wit
- nüktedanlık
- wit
- {f} öğrenmek
Bizimle kimin kaldığını öğrenmek istiyorum.
-I want to know who's staying with us.
Eğer yabancı bir dili iyi öğrenmek istiyorsanız, o dili bir yerli ile mümkün olduğunca sık konuşmalısınız.
-If you want to learn a foreign language well, you should speak that language with native speakers as often as you can.
- wit
- {f} farkında ol
Tom'un ebeveynleri olmadan müzeye girmesine izin verilmeyeceğinin farkında olmamasının pek mümkün olmadığını düşünüyorum.
-I think it's highly unlikely that Tom was not aware that he wouldn't be allowed to enter the museum without his parents.
Farkında olmadan tam yanımdan geçti.
-She passed right by me without noticing.
- wit
- {i} zeki kimse
- wit
- demek ki
- wit
- nüktedan kimse
- wit
- {f} bilmek
Gelecek hafta sonu bizimle balık tutmaya gidebilip gidemeyeceğini bilmek istiyorum.
-I want to know if you can go fishing with us next weekend.
Bu gece kiminle çıkacağını bilmek istiyorum.
-I want to know who you're going out with tonight.
- wit
- espritüellik
- wit
- us
- wit
- {f} yâni
Yani sonuçta, Web'i dil öğrenmede daha iyi bir yer yapmak için biz Tatoeba ile sadece temelleri inşa ediyoruz.
-So ultimately, with Tatoeba we are only building the foundations… to make the Web a better place for language learning.
Bu sabah depomu benzinle doldurduğumda, litresi 135 yene mal oldu yani galonu 6.55 dolar.
-When I filled my tank with gasoline this morning, it cost ¥135 per liter which is $6.55 per gallon.
- wistful
- efkarlı
- wistful
- özlem dolu
- wistful
- hasret dolu
- wit
- zekâ
Onların en iyi durumdaki hem zeka hem de vücutları ile, yeni gelenlerin eğitim kampını dört gözle bekleyelim.
-With both mind and body in their best condition, let's look forward to the newcomers' training camp.
Ortalama zekada birisi bunu anlayabilir.
-A person with average intelligence would understand that.
- wit
- fikir
- wistful
- hüzünlü
- wistful
- istekli
- wistful
- özlemli
- wit
- anlayış
İyi bir espri anlayışı zor dönemlerle başa çıkmana yardımcı olacaktır.
-A good sense of humor will help you deal with hard times.
Bazı normlarla ilgili temel bir anlayış olmadan, iletişim mümkün değildir.
-Without a basic understanding of certain norms, communication is impossible.
- wit
- zekâ kıvraklığı
- wit
- nükteci kimse
- wistful
- Düşünceli, dalgın
- wit
- farkında ol(mak)
- wistful
- wist fulnessisteklilik
- wistful
- {s} özlemiş
- wistful
- {s} hasret çeken
- wistful
- istekle
- wistful
- {s} arzulu
- wistful
- wistfullyarzuyla
- wistful
- (sıfat) istekli, arzulu, hasret çeken, özlemiş, dalgın, düşünceli
- wistful
- özlemlilik
- wistful
- düşünceli
- wistfully
- efkarlı bir biçimde
- wistfully
- özlem dolu bir halde
- wistfully
- isteklice
- wistfully
- arzuyla
- wistfully
- özlemli olarak
- wistfully
- istekli olarak
Related Terms
Definition of wist in English English dictionary
- Simple past tense and past participle of wit
And lang ere witless Jeanie wist, / Her heart was tint, her peace was stown!.
- To know, be aware of
- Knew
- obsolete, past of wit
- Past tense and past participle of wit
- wistful
- full of yearning or longing
- wit
- Intelligence; common sense
The opportunity was right in front of you, and you didn't even have the wit to take it!.
- wit
- Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning
Where she has gone to is beyond the wit of man to say.
- wit
- Sanity
He's gone completely out of his wits.
- wit
- The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints
My father had a quick wit and a steady hand.
- wit
- Know, be aware of
She looked through these to God and was God’s priest.
- wit
- Spoken humour, especially when clever or quick
The best man's speech was hilarious, full of wit and charm.
- wit
- The senses
- wit
- a witty amusing person who makes jokes
- wistful
- {a} earnest, attentive, full of thought or desire
- wistfully
- {a} earnestly, attentively
- wit
- {v} to know, understand, blame
- wit
- {n} a man of genius, quickness of fancy understanding, sense, judgement
- wistful
- sad and thoughtful
- wistful
- Someone who is wistful is rather sad because they want something and know that they cannot have it. I can't help feeling slightly wistful about the perks I'm giving up. thinking sadly about something you would like to have but cannot have, especially something that you used to have in the past (wistly (15-18 centuries), probably from whist (15-20 centuries); influenced by wishful)
- wistful
- full of longing or unfulfilled desire; "those wistful little ads that the lovelorn place in the classifieds
- wistful
- Longing; wishful; desirous
- wistful
- full of longing or unfulfilled desire; "those wistful little ads that the lovelorn place in the classifieds"
- wistful
- Full of thought; eagerly attentive; meditative; musing; pensive; contemplative
- wistful
- {s} yearningly pensive, dreamy with longing (especially for things past); melancholy, sad
- wistful
- showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"
- wistfully
- in a wistful manner; "his sister would have looked beautiful in that dress, he thought wistfully, just like an angel
- wistfully
- In a wistful manner}
- wistfully
- in a wistful manner, longingly, yearningly
- wisting
- nonstandard, obsolete, present participle of wist
- wit
- Wit is the ability to use words or ideas in an amusing, clever, and imaginative way. Boulding was known for his biting wit
- wit
- To know; to learn
- wit
- 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. = sense
- wit
- 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
- wit
- a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- wit
- {f} know (Archaic)
- wit
- Mind; intellect; understanding; sense
- wit
- A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty
- wit
- the power of readily combining objects in such a manner
- wit
- 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
- wit
- A mental faculty, or power of the mind; used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one's wits; at one's wits' end, and the like
- wit
- A person of eminent sense or knowledge; a man of genius, fancy, or humor; one distinguished for bright or amusing sayings, for repartee, and the like
- wit
- 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
- wit
- Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also
- wit
- 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
- wit
- 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
- wit
- The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially wittiness
- wit
- mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense"
- wit
- 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
- wit
- To wit is used to indicate that you are about to state or describe something more precisely. He'd like `happiness' to be given a new and more scientifically descriptive label, to wit `Major affective disorder, pleasant type'. = namely
- wit
- {i} intellect; reason; cleverness; sharpness; one who is sharp