witty

adj.机智幽默的,

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
witty (adjective)
1.
archaic having good intellectual capacity - intelligent
2.
amusingly or ingeniously in conception or execution - clever the costumes are sumptuous and witty Virgil Thomson the musical background is … often witty Wolcott Gibbs
3.
marked by or full of clever humor or witsmartly or jocular - facetious a witty novel
4.
quick or ready to see or express illuminating or amusing relationships or insights - a witty raconteur
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
witty (adjective)
given to or marked by mature intelligent humor
SYNONYMS:
clever, facetious, humorous, jocular, smart
RELATED WORDS:
cerebral, highbrow, highbrowed, intellectual; bantering, frivolous, jesting, joking, joshing, teasing; antic, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funny, hysterical, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous, riotous, risible, rollicking, screaming, sidesplitting, uproarious; amusing, diverting, entertaining; mischievous, playful, prankish; jocose, jocund, jolly, jovial, laughing, merry, mirthful, sunny; scintillating, sparkling; flip, flippant, pert, smart-aleck, smart-alecky, waggish; whimsical
NEAR ANTONYMS:
brainless, lowbrow, stupid, witless; corny, hackney, hackneyed, lame; humorless, unamusing, uncomic, unfunny; earnest, grave, serious, serious-minded, sober, solemn, somber ( sombre); doleful, dolorous, lachrymose, plaintive, sorry, tearful, woeful
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