wit deutsch
EN[wɪt] [-ɪt]US
DWitz WSchlagfertigkeit
- Als Schlagfertigkeit bezeichnet man die „entwaffnende“ Reaktion auf sprachliche „Angriffe“. Sie verrät Intelligenz und Geistesgegenwart.
- SubstantivPLwits
- (now usually in the plural) Sanity.
- He's gone completely out of his wits.
- (obsolete usually in the plural) The senses.
- Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
- Where she has gone to is beyond the wit of man to say.
- The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
- My father had a quick wit and a steady hand.
- Intelligence; common sense.
- The opportunity was right in front of you, and you didn't even have the wit to take it!
- Humour, especially when clever or quick.
- The best man's speech was hilarious, full of wit and charm.
- A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
- Your friend is quite a wit, isn't he?
- (now usually in the plural) Sanity.
- Verb
- (transitive, intransitive, chiefly archaic) Know, be aware of (construed with of when used intransitively).
- You committed terrible actions — to wit, murder and theft — and should be punished accordingly.
- They are meddling in matters that men should not wit of.
- (transitive, intransitive, chiefly archaic) Know, be aware of (construed with of when used intransitively).
- Präposition
- (Southern US) Alternative spelling of with.
- (Southern US) Alternative spelling of with.
- Mehr Beispiele
- Wird in der Mitte des Satzes verwendet
- The opportunity was right in front of you, and you didn't even have the wit to take it!
- Each wit may praise it for his own dear sake, / And hint he writ it, if the thing should take.
- y are meddling in matters that men should not wit of.
- In der Endung des Satzes verwendet
- Kendall conceded defeat once she realized she could not win in a battle of wits.
- There is nothing wrong with that kind of line — he’s a newly fledged ultravillain in a comic-book movie, after all — but it needs to be earned, with gravity or wit.
- Wird in der Mitte des Satzes verwendet
Definition of wit in English Dictionary
- Wortart Hierarchie
- Substantive
- Zählbare Nomen
- Zählbare Nomen
- Präpositionen
- Verben
- Intransitive Verben
- Transitive Verben
- Verben mit Wendetyp
- Unregelmäßige Verben
- Unregelmäßige Verben
- Intransitive Verben
- Substantive
Source: Wiktionary