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Antonyms for quick-wittedness
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : kwik-wit-id |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkwɪkˈwɪt ɪd |
Definition of quick-wittedness
- As in resource : noun supply drawn upon, either material or nonmaterial
- As in resourcefulness : noun resource
- On that, and on Greene's presence of mind and quick-wittedness.
- Extract from : « The Boy Scouts on the Trail » by George Durston
- "You are quite a match for your grandmother in quick-wittedness," he said.
- Extract from : « Letters of Two Brides » by Honore de Balzac
- Others remembered his quick-wittedness in helping his friends.
- Extract from : « McClure's Magazine December, 1895 » by Edited by Ida M. Tarbell
- Tommy appreciated her quick-wittedness in realizing that he might be staying at the inn under an assumed name.
- Extract from : « The Secret Adversary » by Agatha Christie
- It might have gone very hard with me, had it not been for the quick-wittedness of the mysterious being known as Shadow.
- Extract from : « Shadow, the Mysterious Detective » by Police Captain Howard
- Still, the quick-wittedness of the inhabitants of Irak makes a decided impression on the traveller passing through Asiatic Turkey.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 6 » by Various
- The fact is it is simply impossible to exaggerate the quick-wittedness and light-heartedness of a great literary genius.
- Extract from : « In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays » by Augustine Birrell
- His quick-wittedness and the subtlety of his character make him full of quaint remarks and funny and unexpected comparisons.
- Extract from : « Friend Mac Donald » by Max O'Rell
- And so, with that quick-wittedness for which his countrymen are justly renowned, he walked out without voting at all.
- Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 4, 1919. » by Various
- Benny showed us his smartness and his quick-wittedness so long, until our pockets were empty.
- Extract from : « Jewish Children » by Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich
Synonyms for quick-wittedness
- ability
- appliance
- artifice
- assets
- capability
- capital
- cleverness
- contraption
- contrivance
- course
- creation
- device
- expedient
- fortune
- hoard
- ingenuity
- initiative
- inventiveness
- makeshift
- means
- measure
- method
- mode
- nest egg
- property
- quick-wittedness
- recourse
- refuge
- relief
- reserve
- resourcefulness
- riches
- shift
- source
- step
- stock
- stockpile
- store
- stratagem
- substance
- substitute
- support
- surrogate
- system
- talent
- way
- wealth
- wherewithal
- worth
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