wit | (noun) mental ability | Synonyms: brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality |
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(noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | Synonyms: humor, humour, witticism, wittiness |
(noun) a witty amusing person who makes jokes | Synonyms: card, wag |
witbier | (noun) a top-fermented barley/wheat beer brewed mainly in Belgium and the Netherlands. | - |
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witch | (noun) a female sorcerer or magician | Synonyms: enchantress |
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(noun) a being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil | - |
(noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldam, beldame, crone, hag |
(noun) a believer in Wicca | Synonyms: Wiccan |
witchcraft | (noun) the art of sorcery | Synonyms: witchery |
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witchery | (noun) the art of sorcery | Synonyms: witchcraft |
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witchgrass | (noun) North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a weed on cultivated land | Synonyms: old witch grass, old witchgrass, Panicum capillare, tumble grass, witch grass |
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(noun) European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed | Synonyms: Agropyron repens, couch grass, dog grass, quack grass, quackgrass, quick grass, witch grass |
witching | (noun) the use or practice of witchcraft | - |
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withdrawal | (noun) the act of withdrawing | - |
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(noun) formal separation from an alliance or federation | Synonyms: secession |
(noun) the termination of drug taking | Synonyms: drug withdrawal |
(noun) the act of taking out money or other capital | - |
(noun) a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation | Synonyms: coitus interruptus, onanism, pulling out, withdrawal method |
(noun) the act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc. | - |
(noun) the act of ceasing to participate in an activity | - |
(noun) a retraction of a previously held position | Synonyms: backdown, climb-down |
(noun) avoiding emotional involvement | Synonyms: detachment |
withdrawer | (noun) a depositor who withdraws funds previously deposited | - |
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(noun) a student who withdraws from the educational institution in which he or she was enrolled | - |
(noun) a contestant who withdraws from competition | - |
(noun) a drug addict who is discontinuing the use of narcotics | - |
(noun) an individualist who withdraws from social interaction | - |
(noun) an authority who withdraws permission | - |
withdrawnness | (noun) a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner | Synonyms: aloofness, remoteness, standoffishness |
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withe | (noun) band or rope made of twisted twigs or stems | - |
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(noun) strong flexible twig | Synonyms: withy |
withering | (noun) any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use) | Synonyms: atrophy |
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withers | (noun) the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals | - |
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withholder | (noun) a person who restrains or checks or holds back | - |
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(noun) a person who refrains from granting | - |
withholding | (noun) the act of deducting from an employee's salary | - |
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(noun) the act of holding back or keeping within your possession or control | - |
(noun) income tax withheld from employees' wages and paid directly to the government by the employer | Synonyms: withholding tax |
withstander | (noun) an opponent who resists with force or resolution | - |
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(noun) a fighter who holds out against attack | Synonyms: defender |
withy | (noun) strong flexible twig | Synonyms: withe |
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witloof | (noun) young broad-leaved endive plant deprived of light to form a narrow whitish head | Synonyms: Belgian endive, French endive |
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(noun) widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green; either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are usually blanched | Synonyms: Cichorium endivia, endive |
witness | (noun) testimony by word or deed to your religious faith | - |
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(noun) someone who sees an event and reports what happened | Synonyms: informant, witnesser |
(noun) a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) | Synonyms: looker, spectator, viewer, watcher |
(noun) (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature | Synonyms: attestant, attestator, attestor |
(noun) (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law | - |
witnesser | (noun) someone who sees an event and reports what happened | Synonyms: informant, witness |
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wits | (noun) the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception | Synonyms: marbles |
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witticism | (noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | Synonyms: humor, humour, wit, wittiness |
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wittiness | (noun) The quality of being clever, amusingly ingenious. | - |
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(noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | Synonyms: humor, humour, wit, witticism |
wittol | (noun) an archaic term for a cuckold who knows about his wife's infidelity but tolerates it | - |
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