Compound of quick + witted.
quickwitted (comparative more quickwitted, superlative most quickwitted)
- Mentally keen and alert.
- Synonyms: quick on the uptake, sharp-witted; see also Thesaurus:intelligent
- Antonyms: slow-witted, slow on the uptake; see also Thesaurus:stupid
She was far too quick-witted to miss the implications of what he was saying.
mentally keen
- Asturian: cuciu
- Bulgarian: схватлив (bg) (shvatliv), находчив (bg) (nahodčiv)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 機智 / 机智 (zh) (jīzhì), 聰明 / 聪明 (zh) (cōngmíng)
- Dutch: scherp van geest
- Finnish: nokkela (fi), terävä (fi), nopeaälyinen (fi)
- Galician: perspicaz (gl)
- German: geistesgegenwärtig (de), schlagfertig (de)
- Italian: sveglio (it), acuto (it), perspicace (it), sagace (it), svelto (it), lesto d'ingegno
- Maori: atamai, ngutu atamai
- Polish: błyskotliwy (pl)
- Portuguese: perspicaz (pt)
- Russian: поня́тливый (ru) (ponjátlivyj), сообрази́тельный (ru) (soobrazítelʹnyj), дога́дливый (ru) (dogádlivyj), нахо́дчивый (ru) (naxódčivyj)
- Swedish: kvicktänkt (sv), snabbtänkt (sv)
- Ukrainian: кмітли́вий (kmitlývyj)
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