| 单词 | witty |
| 释义 | wit·ty 1. a. chiefly dialect b. obsolete 2. a. < fallacies … concealed in florid, witty or involved discourses — John Locke > < architecture as elaborate and costly as it was ingenious and witty — John Summerson > < the costumes are sumptuous and witty — Virgil Thomson > b. obsolete < the most witty and exquisite torments — John Scott †1695 > 3. < one of the wittiest books in English — Irving Howe > < makes a number of wise and witty comments — S.K.Padover > 4. a. < unpredictably witty, eloquent, and satirical in his sermons — G.H.Genzmer > < seeks to establish the picture of witty and adroit parliamentarian — New York Times > b. obsolete < so unmercifully witty upon the women — Joseph Addison > Synonyms: < the witty treatment of beauty as a coin that shines by being kept current — Cleanth Brooks > < she was clever, witty, brilliant, and sparkling beyond most of her kind — Rudyard Kipling > < everybody was being exquisitely witty at their expense — Roy Lewis & Angus Maude > humorous is generic, applying to anything that provokes laughter, usually genial < broad smiles broke out on the faces of the friends. Sometimes, they thought, life was very, very humorous — John Steinbeck > < physicists have a little humorous puzzle which asks: How can you prove that the temperature of Hell is uniform — Warren Weaver > < wizened humorous physiognomy long ago earned him the nickname of Prune-face — J.A.Coleman > facetious usually applies to clumsy or inappropriate jesting or somewhat derogatorily to attempts at wittiness or humorousness that please their maker more than others < scowl at all facetious remarks at his expense > < used to be merely facetious as often as he was funny — New York Herald Tribune Book Review > jocular can mean playfully humorous but usually implies a fondness for joking, suggesting strongly a temperamental desire to keep others amused < in these careless days he was always gleeful and jocular, even as afterwards his entire saintly life was glad with an invincible gaiety of spirit — H.O.Taylor > < the watercolor lesson enlivened by the jocular conversation of the kindly, humorous old man was always great fun — Joseph Conrad > jocose is close to facetious though less derogatory, suggesting a habitual waggishness or sportiveness < sometimes composed something gay and even jocose — J.N.Forkel > < considered it a laughable affair, and was continually bobbing his head out the galley door to make jocose remarks — Jack London > < colonies of tiny shingled shacks, each labeled clearly with its sentimental or jocose name — F.L.Allen > |
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