whit
Other forms: whits
Whit means a small tiny part of something. If you don't even have a whit of courage, you are most likely a chicken.
Whit indicates a bit of something, and usually something abstract like a feeling or emotion. You might feel the last whit of your confidence depart when your teacher hands out the 32-page final exam. Don't confuse whit with wit, meaning mental sharpness or keen sense of humor. Let's hope you have more than a whit of wit in your personality!
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a tiny or scarcely detectable amounttype of:small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantityan indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude
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Vocabulary lists containing whit
Brutus is a trusted confidant of the Roman general Julius Caesar, but when he becomes convinced that Caesar's ambitions are a threat to the republic, he plots his friend's assassination.
After meeting the Tucks, a family that is able to live forever after drinking from a magical spring, Winnie Foster questions whether immortality is a blessing or a curse.