quick-witted
adjective
Synonyms
- alert
- brainy
- bright
- brilliant
- clever
- exceptional
- fast
- hyperintelligent
- intelligent
- keen
- nimble
- quick
- sharp
- sharp-witted
- smart
- supersmart
- ultrasmart
Word History
1530, in the meaning defined above
quick-witted
adjective
Synonyms & Similar Words
- intelligent
- clever
- smart
- quick
- fast
- brilliant
- sharp
- exceptional
- bright
- nimble
- keen
- brainy
- sharp-witted
- educated
- wise
- skilled
- wise
- resourceful
- cunning
- alert
- supersmart
- hyperintelligent
- astute
- insightful
- ingenious
- perceptive
- sagacious
- savvy
- literate
- schooled
- erudite
- ultrasmart
- learned
- knowledgeable
- sensible
- creative
- perspicacious
- acute
- informed
- cerebral
- apt
- shrewd
- wily
- trained
- prudent
- inventive
- discerning
- genial
- logical
- scholarly
- judicious
- highbrow
- knowing
- well-read
- sane
- percipient
- rational
- sage
- heady
- crafty
- reasonable
- sound
- foxy
- sapient
- sapient
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- dumb
- stupid
- simple
- unintelligent
- doltish
- dopey
- slow
- obtuse
- thickheaded
- dull
- witless
- fatuous
- vacuous
- dense
- soft
- thick
- opaque
- brainless
- dunderheaded
- knuckleheaded
- mindless
- boneheaded
- pinheaded
- bubbleheaded
- unsmart
- lamebrained
- dorky
- softheaded
- dim
- lamebrain
- simpleminded
- chuckleheaded
- dim-witted
- dopy
- gormless
- foolish
- feebleminded
- unbrilliant
- slow-witted
- thick-witted
- airheaded
- silly
- idiotic
- senseless
- lunkheaded
- moronic
- half-witted
- birdbrained
- imbecile
- ignorant
- imbecilic
- empty-headed
- uneducated
- weak-minded
- zany
- idiotical
- brain-dead
- illiterate
- uninformed
- unintellectual
- unthinking
- nonintellectual
- untaught
- unacademic
- mad
- wacky
- absurd
- lowbrow
- unwise
- crazy
- kooky
- insane
- nutty
- daffy
- whacky
- lunatic
- nonsensical
- preposterous
- fool
- dippy
- daft
- loony
- screwball
- harebrained
- asinine
- cuckoo
- sappy
- boobish
- half-baked
- dotty
- balmy
- cockeyed
- looney
- crackpot
- kookie
- tomfool
- featherheaded
- half-baked
Synonym Chooser
Some common synonyms of quick-witted are alert, clever, and intelligent. While all these words mean "mentally keen or quick," quick-witted implies promptness in finding answers in debate or in devising expedients in moments of danger or challenge.
Although the words alert and quick-witted have much in common, alert stresses quickness in perceiving and understanding.
While the synonyms clever and quick-witted are close in meaning, clever implies native ability or aptness and sometimes suggests a lack of more substantial qualities.
The synonyms intelligent and quick-witted are sometimes interchangeable, but intelligent stresses success in coping with new situations and solving problems.