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单词 witty
释义
witty
adjective
uk
/ˈwɪt.i/us
/ˈwɪt̬.i/
B2
using words in acleverandfunnyway:
风趣的，诙谐的
a wittycomment/remark风趣的评论／话语
He was witty and verycharming.他既风趣又很有魅力。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
causing laughter
  • funnyShe told me a funny story about Max.
  • amusingI gave her an article that I thought she would find amusing.
  • humorousShe wrote a humorous account of her teenage years.
  • hilariousIt's the most hilarious comedy on television.
  • hystericalI've just read his autobiography - it's absolutely hysterical.
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More examples
  • Hermusicis witty,ironicandallusive.
  • It wasobviousfromtheirwitty intimacies that they had been goodfriendsfor manyyears.
  • She gave a witty,entertainingandarticulatespeech.
  • There are some very wittyone-linersin thefilm.
  • Thefilmis askilful, wittypasticheof 'Jaws'.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Humour & humorous
  • amusingly
  • barrel
  • blackly
  • bone dryidiom
  • bring
  • broadness
  • facetious
  • hilarious
  • jocular
  • joker
  • jokester
  • non-serious
  • photobomb
  • photobombing
  • playfully
  • playfulness
  • rib-tickling
  • ridiculous
  • scream
  • uproarious
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Related word

wittily
(Definition ofwittyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

witty| American Dictionary

witty
adjective
us
/ˈwɪt̬·i/
using words in anamusingandintelligentway;fullofwit:
a wittyremark
Ithinkshe’s one of the wittiestcomicsontelevision.
Note:
  • A witty remark is a witticism.
(Definition ofwittyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofwitty

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It became customary to present definitions before examples and build general results first, relegating concrete applications towittyexercises.
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He appears to have been gifted andwitty, self-absorbed and impossible in equal measure.
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Often, the names werewittypuns on the originals.
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Suppose there were just one generous person in the world, but billions ofwittyones.
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Too clever by half - and yet punning is simply putting things together in awittyand unexpected way.
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Just because the contributors are 'practitioners', it does not follow that they will automatically bewittyor clever.
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The book claims to be the first of its kind, and is awittyand erudite guide to the history of a supporting mechanism.
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Would that our own had equallywittyresults !
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One can only recommend this acute, insightful and frequentlywittyvolume to all historians, both ' ecclesiastical ' and secular.
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The oftenwittyand insightful introduction and coda attest to a meticulous concern with creating textual coherence through the volume as a whole.
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There exist a large number ofwittyalphametics.
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And this is so in spite of the fact that the words "witty," "good-looking," and "funny" are all quite vague.
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We only have to open a newspaper to find endless puns, assonances, alliterations, andwitty(or fixed) similes.
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The ghost affords a pretext for cravings which, if illicit and decadent, are also ironic andwitty.
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Thiswittyand inventive piece had enough ideas and syncopated drive to power a work twice its 13 minutes.
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