WITS Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

wits

noun

plural of wit

as in mind

the normal or healthy condition of the mental abilities scared out of her wits

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Recent Examples of wits Sharpen your wits at any number of trivia nights in the area. — Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2026 There, Rannells matches wits with Allison Janney as the grieving widow. — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 26 June 2026 The Buccaneers were set to play the Vikings, and that meant Canales would be matching wits with veteran defensive coordinator Brian Flores. — Joseph Person, New York Times, 24 June 2026 An organization with its wits about it would read the room. — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 16 June 2026 Just keep your wits about you in late summer, when the bears are hungriest and the trails are busiest. — John Drake, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026 To convince Hannibal to cooperate, the FBI sends in Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster), an agent in training who finds a way to match wits and guts with the monster in the cage. — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 6 June 2026 Unlike Skeletor, Evil-Lyn is smarter and uses her intuitive wits to get her way. — Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026 Rather than a cruel Hedda, a fragile Hedda, a tragically deluded Hedda, Adele saw a woman who was comically at her wits’ end. — Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wits

Noun

Keep in mind that power lines that are laying on the ground may be live.

— CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 16 July 2026
To my mind that’s Union Station, the epicenter of the city’s rail and transit system and the doorway into its sprawling and grid-like downtown district.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026

Definition of mind

Noun

Allaway has spent the last few decades in various locked mental health facilities across California, despite numerous attempts to argue that his sanity has been restored and that he should be allowed to leave the secure hospital facilities.

— Mona Darwish, Oc Register, 14 July 2026
That’s about as pleasant as things ever get for Weir, whose sanity steadily unravels over the course of the film, culminating in one of its most potent scares.

— Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 13 July 2026