wit

wit
n
1. humor, facetiousness, drollery, funniness, wittiness, cleverness, piquancy, quickness; jocularity, waggishness.
2. badinage, persiflage, repartee, quip, wisecrack, saying, sarcasm; irony, satire, burlesque, parody, caricature, travesty; witticism, Atticism, bon mot, jest, jocosity, joke; pun, wordplay, play on words, spoonerism, double entendre; raillery, banter, joshing; buffoonery, playfulness.
3. humorist, lampoonist, parodist; jokester, joker, comic, comedian, comedienne, slapstick artist, Fr. farceur. droll fellow, funny person, Both Inf. card, character; wag, reparteeist, banterer, Inf. wisecracker, punster; zany, madcap, Inf. cutup, antic; mummer, mimer, mimic.
4. intelligence, brains, braininess, Sl. smarts; sagacity, sageness, wisdom, sapience, sapiency; acumen, discernment, perspicacity, penetration; perception, percipience, insight; astuteness, shrewdness, savvy, keenness, long-headedness, hard-headedness, common sense; ingenuity, cleverness, aptness, quickness; brilliance, acuity, sharpness.

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