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witty

/ˈwɪti/US/ˈwɪti/

witty adjective: clever; amusingly ingenious.

Adjective

witty (comparative wittier, superlative wittiest)

  1. Clever; amusingly ingenious.
    • His speech was both witty and informative.
  2. Full of wit.
    • His frequent quips mark him as particularly witty.
  3. Quick of mind; insightful; in possession of wits.
    • She may have grown older, but she has grown no less witty.
  4. (obsolete) Wise, having good judgement.
  5. (archaic) Possessing a strong intellect or intellectual capacity; intelligent, skilful, ingenious.
    • It hath beene a witty invention[…]to establish and ordaine certaine vaine and worthles markes, therewith to honor and recompence vertue[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 7, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Proper noun capitalized: Witty

Witty (plural Wittys)

  1. A surname.

witty meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

witty in Tamil

நளினக்காரன், குழு

witty in Urdu

بذلہ سنج, ہوشیار, شوخ, تیز فہم, ذکی, ظریف

witty in Bengali

রসিক, বুদ্ধিদীপ্ত

witty in Malayalam

ക്ഷണയുക്തിയുളള, രസികത്തമുളള, പരിഹാസം കലർന്ന
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witty in Kannada
ತಮಾಷೆಮಾಡುವ, ಹಾಸ್ಯಪ್ರವೃತ್ತಿಯ, ಚಮತ್ಕಾರದ, ವಿನೋದಸ್ವಭಾವದ
witty in Sanskrit
विदूषक vidūṣaka
witty in Indonesian
jenaka

Examples of witty in a sentence

  • His comments were poignant and witty.
  • He’s witty, sweet, a great cook and easy on the eyes.
  • He told me about some “fatalities”—gruesome, witty ways of killing your opponent.

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Synonyms of witty

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Antonyms

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Forms of witty

Adjective
comparativewittier
superlativewittiest
Proper noun
pluralWittys

Origin of witty

From Middle English witty, witti, from Old English wittiġ, witiġ, ġewittiġ (“clever, wise”), from Proto-West Germanic *witīg, *witag, from Proto-Germanic *witagaz, *wītagaz (“knowing, wise, clever”), equivalent to wit + -y. Cognate with Middle Low German wittich, gewittich (“knowing, clever, wise, understanding”), German witzig (“funny, witty”), Norwegian Bokmål vettig, Norwegian Nynorsk vittig (“witty”).

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Words that rhyme with witty

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Questions about witty

What does witty mean?
Witty means clever; amusingly ingenious.
What is witty in Tamil?
Witty in Tamil is நளினக்காரன், குழு. See Witty meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is witty?
Witty can be an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce witty?
Witty is pronounced /ˈwɪti/ (UK).

Words near witty in the dictionary

  1. Wittrock
  2. Wittrocks
  3. witts
  4. Wittwer
  5. Wittwers
  6. witty
  7. Wittys
  8. Witucki
  9. Wituckis
  10. Wituland
  11. witwal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: witty (page history and authors); Witty (page history and authors); witty (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); witty (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); witty (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); witty (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); witty (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); विदूषक (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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