Definition of wit
(Entry 1 of 2)
1a
: the ability to relate seemingly disparate things so as to illuminate or amuse
b(1)
: a talent for banter or persiflage
(2)
: a witty utterance or exchange
c
: clever or apt humor
d
: astuteness of perception or judgment : acumen
2a
: a person of superior intellect : thinker
b
: an imaginatively perceptive and articulate individual especially skilled in banter or persiflage
3a
: reasoning power : intelligence
4a
: sense sense 2a
—usually used in plural alone and warming his five wits, the white owl in the belfry sits— Alfred Tennyson
at one's wit's end
or at one's wits' end
: at a loss for a means of solving a problem
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