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say it: WIT-ee
witty is an adjective meaning "combining clever conception and facetious expression". It carries one recorded sense.
combining clever conception and facetious expression
“his sermons were unpredictably witty and satirical as well as eloquent”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for witty come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.