"wit" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

wit sustantivo

sustantivo + wit
Kolokacji: 6
rapier wit • acid wit • De Wit • Antoni Wit • trademark wit • ...
wit + verbo
Kolokacji: 4
wit makes • wit comes • wit helps • wit begins
verbo + wit
Kolokacji: 17
keep one's wits • use one's wits • lose one's wits • match wits • know for one's wit • ...
adjetivo + wit
Kolokacji: 57
quick wit • dry wit • sharp wit • sly wit • great wit • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 15
(1) quick, ready, clever, nimble
Kolokacji: 4
(2) dry, wry, ironic, droll
Kolokacji: 4
1. dry wit = ironiczne poczucie humoru dry wit
2. wry wit = cierpki dowcip wry wit
  • Russell's wry wit also comes through in the titles of his paintings.
  • Buck has a great voice, great command of details and a wry wit.
  • The main ingredient of these cakes is wry wit, not wheat flour.
  • The pun is one example of a wry wit that also extends into the courtroom.
  • Ms. Rigg, who has always had a wry wit, does not forgo it here.
  • She even talks in Spenser's cool, crisp idiom, but without the wry wit.
  • And beyond the wry wit of the lyrics, there's Howard's guitar playing.
  • That is just the way Williams, an unassuming man possessed of a wry wit but serious outlook, likes it.
  • He smiled, for the retort showed some of her old wry wit, though she was still far more subdued than before.
  • Fitch brings experience, a no-nonsense approach and a wry wit to a team that has not had much to laugh about recently.
3. ironic wit = ironiczne poczucie humoru ironic wit
4. droll wit = zabawne poczucie humoru droll wit
(8) verbal, slow, dim
Kolokacji: 3
(9) wicked, playful, mischievous
Kolokacji: 3
(10) lively, irreverent
Kolokacji: 2
(11) genuine, real, legendary
Kolokacji: 3
(12) natural, musical, lacerating
Kolokacji: 3
(13) razor-sharp, pointed
Kolokacji: 2
(14) savage, cynical, malicious
Kolokacji: 3
(15) delicate, brittle
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + wit
Kolokacji: 12
to wit • of wit • with wit • for one's wit • out of one's wits • ...

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