Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quick-witted \Quick"-wit`ted\, a.
Having ready wit
--Shak.
Wiktionary
a. mental keen, alert, sharp, agile, and nimble.
WordNet
adj. mentally nimble and resourceful; "quick-witted debater"; "saved an embarrassing situation with quick-witted tact"
Usage examples of "quick-witted".
She was pretty and quick-witted, and I took a fancy to her, and wished for some pretext on which I could put off my departure, and chance came to my aid.
Tonine was naturally quick-witted, but she did not know either how to read or to write.
Bill, quick-witted also, rushed to his assistance, and between them they hauled Pud back, though all three were on the ground and nearly over the edge before the two could stop the heavy Pud.
I wondered that Linky Teagle could be so quick-witted as to escape the fire bath!
As he came across in her exuberant description, he was a happy-go-lucky sharpie with a heart full of larceny but without any vestige of a mean streak, a chipper quick-witted con man with a deck of cards in one hand and a stack of uranium stock in the other, a heavy drinker but not a sloppy one, a big spender and a good-time Charlie, a man whose sense of responsibility and need for security were about as well developed as that of the lilies of the field.
The winchman, fortunately, was as quick-witted as he was experienced, and as the wildly careening crate swung jerkily back to dead centre he lowered away at two or three times the normal speed, braking just seconds before the lowermost corner of the crate crunched and splintered against the floor of the hold.
To think that a man as shrewd, as subtle-minded, as quick-witted, and adroit as himself--a man who had passed through so many troubled epochs, who had served with the same obsequious countenance all the masters who would accept his services--to think that such a man should have been thus duped and betrayed!
This was an innovation in the San Joaquin, an idea of shrewd, quick-witted young Annixter, which Harran and Magnus Derrick had been quick to adopt, and after them Broderson and Osterman, and many others of the wheat growers of the county.
Tonine was naturally quick-witted, but she did not know either how to read or to write.
She was silent for some time, for though she was quick-witted enough, a woman's natural modesty and her own frankness, prevented her from guessing at my artifice.
She was pretty and quick-witted, and I took a fancy to her, and wished for some pretext on which I could put off my departure, and chance came to my aid.
Fortunately, he was quick-witted enough to move as fast as I did, and the action was so unexpected to Ibn Asl that we were off before he knew what had happened.
The Cockneys would be especially quaint, because they were so quick-witted, and so full of independence and courage.
Where is your man who speaks Shana" Carefully Craig coached the man in what he had to say, and was relieved to find him quick-witted.
The news coming in from the eastern front, the air raids, which were becoming ever more frequent, life on ration cards and the arrogant behavior of Nazi functionaries were sapping the vital energy of the Berliners, who were otherwise so quick-witted and full of zest for life.