Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Aware or conscious of something.
- adj. Done intentionally or with premeditation; deliberate.
- v. present participle of wit2.
- n. Chiefly British Knowledge or awareness; cognizance.
- n. Chiefly British Information obtained and passed on; news.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Knowledge; perception.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete Knowledge, awareness.
- adj. aware, knowledgable
- v. present participle of wit.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. aware or knowing
- adj. intentionally conceived
Etymologies
- Participle adjective of wit. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I think the witting is the problem, The actors get bad material.”
“But they have been his witting—and unwitting—enablers, and the consequences of the latest disclosures rest on their shoulders, too.”
“Insist on a contract in witting that specifies the nature of the service to be provided.”
“A friend of mine, a sociologist by training, told me that whatever I chose to write about Clinton would be a lie, that no conclusions could be drawn that weren't the witting or unwitting result of bias or ignorance or simply not having the whole story.”
The Huffington Post: John V. Santore: Democracy in Clinton, Iowa
“Just as infuriating is the witting acceptance among the leadership class.”
“If I'm going to indulge in some sort of Ron Swanson item, it's usually witting with him in the furniture shop.”
Parks and Rec's Nick Offerman on Ron Swanson's Moustache Misadventures and Scary Tammy
“Wonder what of interest might be found on the ships, besides witting fools?”
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“Arthur Kirkland says: rachel: Wonder what of interest might be found on the ships, besides witting fools?”
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“Over the course of nine days, the Tinners listed witting and unwitting suppliers in a dozen countries around the world who had provided sensitive equipment for the network.”
“And will live to propagandize again as the witting or unwitting tools of terrorists.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘witting’.
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Deprefixed words
A list of words you more frequently hear used with prefixes than without.
clement, witting, ravel, whelm, fettered, licit, couth, bridled, wieldy, kempt, ingenuous, iterate and 116 more...
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Probe~ation
An obnoxious and ridiculous madlib list where verbish '-ing' words fill in the blank wherein the blank is a call for a beating.
For example:
"You're ________in' for a brus...searching, looking, hunting, seeking, questing, exploring, asking, inquiring, snooping, poking, probing, scouting and 262 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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