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Meaning cleverly funny, especially with quick remarks

Memory hook full of quick WIT: WIT-ty. Rosa always has a quick, clever line ready, and her friends can’t stop laughing: she is witty.

Her witty reply made even the grumpy bus driver laugh.

In context Grandpa’s toasts were never long or dull; they were witty, full of quick, clever lines that had the whole room laughing.

Similar clever, humorous, quick-witted, amusing

Opposite dull, humorless

From Old English witig, “clever, wise,” from wit (mind, understanding).

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