Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A witticism; a play of wit.
Wiktionary
- n. witticism; witty comment or composition
GNU Webster's 1913
- A witticism.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a witty comment or writing
Examples
“Amsterdam is an intricate satirical jeu d'esprit and topical to the point of Tom Wolfeishness.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jeu d'esprit’.
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wit
with wit mess (between less & ness)
wit, wot, wote, wost, wist, weeting, sense, wite, witticism, insulse, wittiness, wittiness witness and 31 more...
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A Mini-Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words
This mini-dictionary was inspired by the novel and imaginative use of language in the following publications:
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown; The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart; Lullaby by...abase, anomie, antediluvium, aphorism, apropos, armoire, ascetic, atrium, austere, balustrade, bordello, catechism and 107 more...
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Sassypants
The qualities of The Diva. Social skills, playful yet bitchy.
churlish, bitchy, cantankerous, peevish, disagreeable, quarrelsome, venomous, grumpy, groachy, crabby, dismal, snappish and 143 more...
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Scotty's words
fun words
anathema, elegiac, far niente, jocosity, zugzwang, purblind, mephitic, inchoate, tantalus, impecunious, aphotic, jeu d'esprit and 35 more...
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A Wit List
wit, witty, witless, outwit, nitwit, witting, unwitting, inwit, witticism, witling, iwit, fat-witted and 64 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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