Quick-witted
101brilliant — adj 1. shining, bright, sunny, sunshiny; illuminated, alight, light, lit, lighted; white, golden, rutilant, aureate; radiant, irradiant, lambent, resplendent, beaming, beamy; dazzling, vivid, intense, ablaze, aflame, afire; fulgent, effulgent,… …
102incandescent — adj 1. alight, lit, lighted, illuminating, lambent, irradiant; sunny, sunshiny, shining, beaming, beamy; fulgid, glittering, rutilant; fulgent, effulgent, refulgent; luminous, luminescent, lumi niferous, luciferous; sparkling, twinkling, flashing …
103alert — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. watchful, on guard, wary; quick, ready. See care, activity. v. See warning.Ant., inattentive, unaware. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Watchful] Syn. wary, on guard, wide awake; see observant 2 . 2.… …
104obtuse — adjective /əbˈtjuːs,əbˈtʃuːs,əbˈt(j)us,ɑbˈt(j)us/ a) Blunt; not sharp. b) Intellectually dull or dim witted. Syn: dense, dim, dim witted …
105canny — Synonyms and related words: Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, Scotch, acute, adroit, arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, careful, cautious, chary, cheeseparing, circumspect, clever, conserving, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep,… …
106hep — Synonyms and related words: alive to, appreciative of, apprised of, awake to, aware of, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, canny, cognizant of, conscious of, hep to, in the know, in the secret, informed of, knowing, let into, mindful of,… …
107joking — Synonyms and related words: Attic, bantering, biting, brilliance, brilliant, chaffing, clever, cleverness, droll, facetious, facetiousness, fooling, funniness, funny, hazing, humorous, humorousness, humorsome, jesting, jocose, jocoseness, jocular …
108joshing — Synonyms and related words: Attic, banter, bantering, biting, booing, brilliance, brilliant, catcalling, chaffing, clever, cleverness, derision, derisive, derisory, droll, facetious, facetiousness, fleering, flippancy, flippant, fooling,… …
109knowing — Synonyms and related words: Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, advised, aimed, aimed at, alive, all knowing, apperceptive, appercipient, apprehending, apprehensive, arch, artful, astute, awake, aware, blase, brainy, bright, brilliant …
110slick — Synonyms and related words: Byzantine, Ciceronian, Daedalian, Demosthenian, Demosthenic, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, Tullian, acute, adept, adipose, adroit, anal, anoint, apt, arch, artful, artfully, articulate, artistic, astute, astutely,… …
