WITS

"WITS" is a plural of: wit.

Date "WITS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Literature

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WITS

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Intellect

Noun: intellect, mind, understanding, reason, thinking principle; rationality; cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties, discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties; faculties, senses, consciousness, observation, percipience, intelligence, intellection, intuition, association of ideas, instinct, conception, judgment, wits, parts, capacity, intellectuality, genius; brains, cognitive powers, intellectual powers; wit; ability; (skill); wisdom; Vernunft, Verstand.

Crosswords: WITS

You scared the wits out of me! (Popeye; writing credit: Jules Feiffer; E.C. Segar)

Gather your wits and hold on fast, Your mind must learn to roam. (Tommy; writing credit: Pete Townshend; Ken Russell)

I know you can fight, but it's our wits that make us men. (Braveheart; writing credit: Randall Wallace)

The world must construe according to its wits; this court must construe according to the law. (A Man for All Seasons; writing credit: Robert Bolt)

You try to match wits (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

My fist got hard and my wits got keen, (A Boy Named Sue; performing artist: Johnny Cash)

I Refuse To Have A Battle Of Wits With An Unarmed Person. (references; author: unknown)

Wits End (1952)

A Battle of Wits (1925)

Winning with Wits (1922)

Matching Wits (1922)

A Battle of Wits (1921)

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References

• New Wits Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• At Wits End (reference)

• Dear Wit: Letters from the World's Wits (reference)

• Fists, Wits, And A Wicked Right : Surviving On The Wild Side Of The Street (reference)

• Test your wits! (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Match Wits With the Witch & 4 (reference)

• Tom Matches Wits W/Indian Joe (reference)

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Ta Wits Nan - Ute, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, wearing beaver stole around his neck, checkered shirt, and war "vest". Credit: Library of Congress.

Women have long hair and short wits. Credit: Library of Congress.

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During the whole of this time, Scrooge had acted like a man out of his wits.

I do not know where my wits were, I went much too far, I talked extravagantly.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

A little ring of listeners closed round to hear the war of wits.

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Expressions using "WITS": a battle of wits ♦ at one's wits end ♦ battle of wits ♦ be at one's wits end ♦ be out of one's wits ♦ be scared out of one's wits ♦ frighten smb. out of his wits ♦ gather one's wits ♦ go out of one's wits ♦ have one's wits about one ♦ he has quick wits ♦ he's got his wits about him ♦ keep one's wits about one ♦ keep your wits about you! ♦ live by one's wits ♦ live on one's wits ♦ lose one's wits ♦ one's wits gone a bird's nesting ♦ out of one's wits ♦ quick wits ♦ scare smb. out of his wits ♦ set one's wits to a question ♦ set one's wits to work ♦ slow wits ♦ The five wits ♦ to rack one's wits ♦ use one's wits. Additional references.

Ending with "WITS": half-wits.

Albanian

lemeris shumë (frighten smb. out of his wits), lajthis (commit an error, err, go out of one's wits, mistake). (various references)

Arabic 

‏محتار (at one's wits end, ill at ease, up a gum tree), ‏بسرعة عالية (be at one's wits end). (various references)

Bulgarian 

изкарвам акъла на някого (scare smb. out of his wits), изкарам някому акъла от страх (frighten smb. out of his wits). (various references)

Chinese 

机智 (Quick-witted, Wit, Witty). (various references)

Czech

podìsit nìkoho (frighten smb. out of his wits), být vydìšený k smrti (be scared out of one's wits). (various references)

Finnish

on sukkelaälyinen (has quick wits), hätääntyi suunniltaan (got scared out of his wits). (various references)

French

sens (wit). (various references)

German

Witze (funnies, gags, jokes, joking, witticisms). (various references)

Hebrew 

לאב�" עשתו� ותיו (be confused, fly off the handle, lose one's head, lose one's wits, panic). (various references)

Hungarian

van esze vmihez (have the wits to sg), szellemi párviadal (encounter of wits), meghibban (have lost one's wits, to go off one's onion, to go queer), megbolondul (go crazy, have lost one's wits, to be out of one's mind, to get crazy, to go off one's head), lassú észjárású (blockish, doltish, have slow wits, loggerheaded, slow witted, slow-coach, slow-witted, thick-headed), kiokosít vkit (to sharpen sy's wits), eszét veszti (have lost one's wits, to be out of one's mind), erőlteti az eszét (to set one's wits to work to), öt érzékszerv (five wits), összeméri az eszét vki máséval (have the battle of wits), élesíti az eszét vkinek (to sharpen sy's wits). (various references)

Italian

giudizio (adjudgement, appreciation, conclusion, good sense, judgement, judgment, mind, opinion, savvied, sense, senses, sentence, sight, trial, understanded, verdict, view, wisdom, wit). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

智嚢 (brains). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ちのう (brains, intelligence, mental powers). (various references)

Korean 

기지 (Wit). (various references)

Pig Latin

itsway

Romanian

minte (brain, imagination, intellect, judgment, mind, nous, pate, reason, savvy, sense, spirit, thinking, wisdom, wit). (various references)

Russian 

мозг (brain, marrow, pericranium). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izbezumiti od straha (frighten smb. out of his wits). (various references)

Swedish

sinnen. (various references)

Turkish

tetikte olmak (be on the alert, have one's wits about one), her türlü yola basvurarak geçinmek (live by one's wits), fikir savaşı (battle of wits, polemic, polemics), fikir çatışması (battle of wits, clash of ideas), durumu hemen kavramak (keep one's wits about one). (various references)

Ukrainian

кмітливість (acumen, acuteness, apprehension, aptitude, aptness, brightness, gumption, headpiece, intelligence, nimbleness, nous, pregnancy, prehension, quick wits, quickness, sagacity, savvy, sharpness, understanding), зібратися з думками (gather one's wits), змагання в дотепності (a battle of wits), збагнути (apprehend, catch, comprehend, conceive, gather one's wits, get at, penetrate, tumble to), здуріти (be out of one's wits, crack, dement), битва умів (a battle of wits). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "WITS": dimwits, godwits, nitwits, outwits, peewits, pewits, twits, unwits. (additional references)

Misspellings

"WITS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: awits, ewits, owits, Wats, watz, weets, westi, wetas, wetis, wetz, whits, wics, wifs, wijs, wims, wishs, wisq, wiss, wisty, wita, wites, withs, witn, wito, witos, witsa, witso, witsy, witu, witws, witz, Witzum, wixt, wizs, wmt, woist, wots, wtbs, wut, wxit, wyst, wytes. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: wist.

-1 letter: its, sit, tis, wis, wit.

-2 letters: is, it, si, ti.

+1 letter: swift, swith, twigs, twins, twist, twits, waist, waits, whist, whits, wilts, wists, wites, wrist, writs.

+2 letters: awaits, pewits, pitsaw, swifts, switch, swithe, swivet, towies, twains, twiers, twills, twines, twirls, twirps, twists, twisty, unwits, waists, weskit, whilst, whisht, whists, whites, widest, widths, wights, wisent, wisest, wisted, withes, wriest, wrists, wristy, writes.

+3 letters: bawties, cowiest, dawties, dewiest, dimwits, entwist, godwits, inswept, intwist, lawsuit, mistbow, miswrit, nitwits, outswim, outwish, outwits, peewits, pitsaws, retwist, stewing, stowing, sweetie, swifter, swiftly, swither, swithly, swivets, tawnies, tawpies, tawsing, taxwise, townies, townish, trishaw, twibils, twiners, twinges, twinset, twisted, twister, untwist, waisted, waister, waiters, waniest, wapitis, wariest, wasting, wastrie, waviest, waxiest, website, weights, weskits, westing, wetsuit, wettish, whatsis, whatsit, whishts, whisted, whistle, whitens, whitest, whiteys, whities, whitish, wickets, widgets, wiglets, wildest, wiliest, willets, winiest, winters, wintles, wiriest, wisents, wistful, wisting, witches, withers, withies, withins, witless, witness, witneys, wittols, worrits, wraiths, wrights, writers, writhes.