quick-witted

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   able to think, understand, and reply rapidly and intelligently

   The quick-witted lawyer immediately noticed the contradiction in the testimony.

A compound of quick in its older sense "alive, mentally alert" + witted ("having a particular kind of wit or intelligence"). The hyphenated spelling makes the two-part adjective explicit.

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