quick-witted

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English

Adjective

quick-witted (comparative more quick-witted, superlative most quick-witted)

  1. Alternative spelling of quickwitted.
    • 2007 December 3, Christy Lemire, “Review: "Juno" A Small Comic Charmer”, in CBS News:
      Juno MacGuff is the kind of teenager we all wish we could have been: quick-witted, frighteningly intelligent beyond her years and comfortable enough in her own skin to resist those incessant high-school pressures to conform, even as her body expands with an unplanned pregnancy.