Crossword-Solution: WIT 3 letters, 466 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word Word Type Definition
Wit inf. of Wit
Wit t ing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wit
Wit n. To know; to learn.
Wit v. Mind; intellect; understanding; sense.
Wit v. 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 v. Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as
to produce a pleasant surprise; also. the power of readily combining
objects in such a manner.
Wit v. 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.

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WIT anagram TIW, TWI

We have 466 clues for the answer “WIT”

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Clever humor or sharp intelligence 1 answer
"Brevity is the soul of ___."—Hamlet. 1 answer
"Cultured insolence," according to Aristotle 1 answer
"Educated insolence," according to Aristotle 1 answer
"Educated insolence," per Aristotle 1 answer
"Educated insolence," to Aristotle 1 answer
"Few love it unless in themselves," per Lord Chesterfield 1 answer
"Irreverence is easy--what's hard is __": Tom Lehrer 1 answer
"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for __": Wilde 1 answer
"Rapier" quality 1 answer
"Rock ___ U (Awww Baby)" (2003 Ashanti hit) 1 answer
"Rock ___ U" (Awww Baby)" (Ashanti) 1 answer
"Sharp" humor 1 answer
"The noblest frailty of the mind": Shadwell 1 answer
"The salt of conversation, not the food," per William Hazlitt 1 answer
"There's many a man hath more hair than ___": Shak. 1 answer
"Too much" of it "makes the world rotten", per Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1 answer
"Well-bred insolence," per Aristotle 1 answer
"___ and wisdom are like the seven stars, seldom seen together": Thomas Fuller 1 answer
"___ has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words": Dorothy Parker 1 answer
1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning Margaret Edson play 1 answer
1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama 1 answer
1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning play 1 answer
1999 Pulitzer-winning drama 1 answer
1999 Pulitzer-winning play by Margaret Edson 1 answer
A lively person may have a sparkling one 1 answer
A pun is said to be the lowest form of this 1 answer
Ability to amuse 1 answer
Ability to banter 1 answer
Ability to say clever things 1 answer
Ad-libber's asset 1 answer
Algonquin Round Table member, e.g. 1 answer
Amusing quality 1 answer
Apt humor 1 answer
Aptitude for wordplay 1 answer
Art Buchwald's sine qua non 1 answer
Asset for a funny ad-libber 1 answer
Attic appendage 1 answer
Attic salt. 1 answer
Cleverness or quick humor 1 answer
Bon mot deliverer 1 answer
Bon mot expert 1 answer
Bon mot speaker 1 answer
Brainy skill 1 answer
Brevity is its soul 1 answer
Brevity is said to be the soul of it 1 answer
Brevity is the s- wait, can I start over? Humor 1 answer
Card quality 1 answer
Card's quality 1 answer
Cerf for one 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WIT (5)

THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF The pirate attack had been a complete surprise: a sure proof that the unscrupulous Hook had conducted it improperly, for to surprise redskins fairly is beyond the wit of the white man.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Him after long debate, irresolute Of thoughts revolv’d, his final sentence chose Fit Vessel, fittest Imp of fraud, in whom To enter, and his dark suggestions hide From sharpest sight: for in the wilie Snake, Whatever sleights none would suspicious mark, As from his wit and native suttletie Proceeding, which in other Beasts observ’d Doubt might beget of Diabolic pow’r Active within beyond the sense of brute.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
The Fox quickly picked it up, and thus addressed the Crow: “My good Crow, your voice is right enough, but your wit is wanting.” The Two Dogs A MAN had two dogs: a Hound, trained to assist him in his sports, and a Housedog, taught to watch the house.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Listen here what he do wit his money.” And Frank began the catalogue of the young man’s reputed extravagances.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
When the Lion came back he soon noticed the absence of the brains, and asked the Fox in a terrible voice: “What have you done with the brains?” “Brains, your Majesty! it had none, or it would never have fallen into your trap.” Wit has always an answer ready.
The Fables of Aesop Aesop 1992

Quotes with WIT (3)

Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.
Tom Robbins Jitterbug Perfume
There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.", Summer 1956]
Dorothy Parker
Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.
Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451
Where this answer appears

Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 552 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).