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| Main Entry: | wit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humor |
| Synonyms: | aphorism, badinage, banter, burlesque, drollery, fun, gag, jest, joke, lark, levity, pleasantry, practical joke, prank, pun, quip, raillery, repartee, sally, satire, trick, wisecrack, bon mot, facetiousness, jocularity, whimsicality, wittiness, wordplay |
| Antonyms: | seriousness |
| Main Entry: | wit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is very funny |
| Synonyms: | card, comedian, comic, humorist, jester, joker, madcap, trickster, wag, a million laughs, banterer, cutup, epigrammatist, farceur, funster, gag person, jokesmith, jokester, life of the party, punster, quipster, wisecracker |
| Main Entry: | wit/wits |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | judgment, intelligence |
| Synonyms: | acumen, acuteness, astuteness, awareness, balance, cleverness, common sense, comprehension, discernment, discrimination, esprit, grasp, ingenuity, insight, keenness, lucidity, mentality, mind, perception, perspicacity, practicality, prudence, reason, sagacity, sanity, sapience, sense, shrewdness, soundness, understanding, wisdom, astucity, brainpower, brains, depth of perception, marbles, rationality, sagaciousness, sageness, saneness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, stupidity |
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-nouns
wit, humor, wittiness; attic wit, attic salt; atticism; salt, esprit, point, fancy, whim, drollery, pleasantry., farce, buffoonery, fooling, tomfoolery; shenanigan(s) [U.S.], harlequinade [more]; broad farce, broad humor; fun, espieglerie; vis comica., jocularity; jocosity, jocoseness; facetiousness; waggery, waggishness; whimsicality; comicality [more]., banter, badinage, retort, repartee, smartness, ready wit, qui-pro-quo; ridicule [more]., jest, joke; facetiae, quips and cranks; capital joke; canorae nugae; standing jest, standing joke, conceit, quip, quirk, crank, quiddity, concetto, plaisanterie, brilliant idea; merry thought, bright thought, happy thought; sally; flash of wit, flash of merriment; scintillation; mot, mot pour rire; witticism, smart saying, bon-mot,jeu d'esprit,epigram; jest book; dry joke quodlibet, cream of the jest., word-play, jeu de mots; play of words, play upon words; pun, punning; double entente (ambiguity) [more]; quibble, verbal qubibble; conundrum (riddle) [more]; anagram, acrostic, double acrostic, trifling, idle conceit, turlupinade., old joke, Joe Miller.
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in joke, in jest, in sport, in play.
-phrases
adhibenda est in jocando moderatio; "gentle dullness ever loves a joke" [Pope]; "leave this kean encounter of our wits" [Richard III].
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| Antonyms: | dullness |
| Main Entry: | acumen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to understand and reason |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, astuteness, awareness, cleverness, comprehension, cunning, discernment, discrimination, farsightedness, grasp, guile, ingenuity, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, keenness, perception, perspicacity, refinement, sagacity, sensitivity, shrewdness, smarts*, understanding, vision, wisdom, wit, acuity, brains, brilliance, good taste, percipience, perspicuity, sharpness, smartness |
| Notes: | acumen suggests that keenness relates to a person's mind, whereas acuity suggests that it relates to a person's performance; acumen is something that a person has, whereas acuity is something that a person displays |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, inability, stupidity, denseness, ineptness, obtuseness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cleverness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brightness, ingenuity |
| Synonyms: | ability, adroitness, astuteness, calculation, dexterity, discernment, flair, gift, gumption, intelligence, quickness, sagacity, sense, shrewdness, skill, talent, wisdom, wit, brains, canniness, quick wit, resourcefulness, sharpness, smartness |
| Antonyms: | foolishness, ignorance, stupidity, naievety, senselessness |
| Main Entry: | comedian |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | funny person, often professional |
| Synonyms: | actor, card*, clown, comic, droll, entertainer, humorist, jester, joker, laugh, stooge*, top banana*, wag, wit*, zany*, banana, cutup, farceur, jokester, merry-andrew, million laughs, quipster, stand-up comic, wisecracker |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | comic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | funny person, often professional |
| Synonyms: | buffoon*, card*, clown, comedian, droll, humorist, jester, joker, stooge*, top banana*, wag*, wit*, banana, funnyman, jokester, life of the party, million laughs, quipster, stand-up comic |
| Antonyms: | tragedian |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | common sense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sound judgment |
| Synonyms: | acumen, cool, experience, gumption, horse sense*, horse sense, intelligence, logic, mother wit, practicality, prudence, reason, sense, sound judgment, soundness, wisdom, wit, good reasoning, good sense, levelheadedness, rationality, reasonableness, sensibleness, sound sense, sweet reason, wits |
| Antonyms: | foolishness, impracticality, insanity, unreasonableness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | eloquence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skillful way with words |
| Synonyms: | ability, appeal, articulation, delivery, diction, dramatic, expression, facility, fervor, flow, fluency, force, gift of gab*, loquacity, oration, oratory, passion, persuasiveness, poise, power, rhetoric, spirit, style, vigor, vivacity, wit, command of language, expressiveness, expressivity, forcefulness, grandiloquence, meaningfulness, mellifluousness, volubility, wittiness |
| Antonyms: | dullness, inarticulateness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gumption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nerve, initiative |
| Synonyms: | ability, acumen, astuteness, cleverness, discernment, enterprise, horse sense*, industry, judgment, perspicacity, sagacity, savvy, sense, shrewdness, spirit, wisdom, wit, commonsense, get-up-and-go, good sense, perspicaciousness, resourcefulness, sagaciousness |
| Antonyms: | cowardice, naivety |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | humorist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | comedian |
| Synonyms: | card*, clown, comic, entertainer, jester, joker, wit, comedienne, cutup, jokesmith, jokester, satirist, stand-up comic, wisecracker |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imagination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power to create in one's mind |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, artistry, awareness, chimera, cognition, conception, creation, creativity, enterprise, fabrication, fancy, fantasy, flight of fancy*, idea, illusion, image, imagery, ingenuity, insight, inspiration, intelligence, invention, notion, originality, realization, sally, supposition, thought, thoughtfulness, verve, vision, wit, creative thought, ideality, inventiveness, mental agility, perceptibility, resourcefulness, unreality, visualization, wittiness |
| Antonyms: | being, entity, existence, material, reality, substance, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ingenuity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cleverness |
| Synonyms: | ability, adroitness, astuteness, brightness, creativity, cunning, dexterity, flair, genius, gumption, intelligence, shrewdness, skill, talent, wisdom, wit, brains, brilliance, inventiveness, resourcefulness, smartness |
| Main Entry: | irony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sarcasm |
| Synonyms: | banter, burlesque, contempt, criticism, derision, humor, incongruity, jibe, mockery, paradox, quip, raillery, repartee, reproach, ridicule, satire, taunt, twist, wit, contrariness, mordancy, sardonicism |
| Antonyms: | consideration, deference |
| Main Entry: | jester |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who jokes, plays jokes |
| Synonyms: | actor, antic, buffoon, card*, clown, comedian, comic, droll, fool, harlequin, humorist, joker, madcap*, trickster, wag*, wit, banterer, cutup, japer, jokester, larker, life of the party, pantaloon, practical joker, prankster, quipster, standup comic, wisecracker |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | joker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who kids, teases |
| Synonyms: | actor, buffoon, card*, clown, comedian, comic, droll, fool, humorist, jester, second banana*, stooge, top banana*, trickster, wag, wit, banana, cutup, farceur, funster, gagster, jokesmith, jokester, josher, kidder, life of the party, prankster, punster, quipster, stand-up comic, straight person, wisecracker |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | levity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | funniness, silliness |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, amusement, buoyancy, festivity, flightiness, flippancy, folly, foolishness, frivolity, happiness, hilarity, lightheartedness, mirth, picnic*, pleasantry, repartee, trifling, volatility, wit, facetiousness, fickleness, giddiness, high spirits, jocularity, laughs, triviality |
| Antonyms: | gravity, seriousness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mentality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of mind; intelligence |
| Synonyms: | attitude, cast, character, comprehension, disposition, frame of mind*, intellect, intelligence quotient, makeup, mental age, mind, outlook, personality, psychology, reasoning, routine, sense, understanding, wit, IQ, brainpower, brains, headset, mindset, rationality, turn of mind, way of thinking |
| Antonyms: | physicality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pleasantry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nice remark |
| Synonyms: | badinage, banter, humor, jest, joke, joking, levity, merriment, quip, quirk, repartee, sally*, wit, witticism, bon mot, squib* |
| Antonyms: | criticism |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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