Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of wit, knowledge, or wisdom; wise; knowing; sensible.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Wise; sensible.

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  • adjective obsolete wise; sensible

Etymologies

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wit +‎ -ful

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Examples

  • Of course, the ever witful Paul Bettany returned as the voice of Jarvis, the house & armor on board computer.

    Iron Man 2: A Review (Spoiler Free) and Movie Theater Experience 2010

  • I must admit in all candor that I found myself uninhibitedly urinating in my trousers from the sheer force of this witful hilarity.

    Das Storie mit der Smallisch Reddisch Riden Hood 2007

  • I must admit in all candor that I found myself uninhibitedly urinating in my trousers from the sheer force of this witful hilarity.

    Archive 2007-08-01 2007

  • Inman wondered how a goat could look so much more curious and witful than a sheep when they were in many features alike.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • Inman wondered how a goat could look so much more curious and witful than a sheep when they were in many features alike.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • The words kept trying to crawl through my sesophagus, and when I backed 'em up, they slid down and stood around in groups, hanging onto the straps, gradually filling me with witful gems of thought.

    Pardners Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • His witful poems are all wit, his analytical poems are all analysis, and his imaginative poems, owing to this want of fusion, have not the same intellectual strength they had in other days.

    The Poetry Of Robert Browning 1874

  • But if I were awake and witful, I never could forget him.

    Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution Emily Sarah Holt 1864

  • Yet in very sooth there is some gear we must needs get by rote ere we be witful enough to conceive the use thereof.

    The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time Emily Sarah Holt 1864

  • 3He seems witful enough,4 Catchflea ventured carefully.

    Riverwind the Plainsman Thompson, Paul B. 1990

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