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Definition of witz (veraltend) in German English dictionary
- wit
- Intelligence; common sense
The opportunity was right in front of you, and you didn't even have the wit to take it!.
- Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning
Where she has gone to is beyond the wit of man to say.
- Sanity
He's gone completely out of his wits.
- The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints
My father had a quick wit and a steady hand.
- {v} to know, understand, blame
- {n} a man of genius, quickness of fancy understanding, sense, judgement
- Wit is the ability to use words or ideas in an amusing, clever, and imaginative way. Boulding was known for his biting wit
- To know; to learn
- 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
- 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
- a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- {f} know (Archaic)
- Mind; intellect; understanding; sense
- A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty
- the power of readily combining objects in such a manner
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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