quick-witted

A form of quickwitted — Mentally keen and alert.

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Meanings

adjectivequick-witted (comparative more quick-witted, superlative most quick-witted)

comparative more quick-witted · superlative most quick-witted

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of quickwitted.

    Juno MacGuff is the kind of teenager we all wish we could have been: quick-witted, frighteningly intelligent beyond her years and comfortable enough in her own skin to resist those incessant high-school pressures to conform, even as her body expands with an unplanned pregnancy.

    2007 December 3, Christy Lemire, “Review: "Juno" A Small Comic Charmer”, in CBS News

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivementally nimble and resourceful

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Also see
brainybrightcleverdrollgroundedingeniousintelligentprudentquick on the drawquick on the uptakequickwittedsapientsharp as a tacksharp-wittedsubtletongue-in-cheekwhimsicalwisewitty

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Cite this entry
APA

quick-witted. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quick-witted

MLA

“quick-witted.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quick-witted. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “quick-witted,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quick-witted.

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