whit
[ hwit, wit ]
/ ʰwɪt, wɪt /
noun
a particle; bit; jot (used especially in negative phrases): not a whit better.
RELATED WORDS
iota,
little,
mite,
jot,
speck,
trace,
fragment,
pinch,
scrap,
drop,
particle,
hoot,
dash,
modicum,
shred,
grain,
atom,
crumb,
piece Nearby words
whistler, james,
whistling,
whistling buoy,
whistling duck,
whistling swan,
whit,
whit monday,
whit sunday,
whit week,
whitaker,
whitbread Origin of whit
1470–80; perhaps alteration of
Middle English wiht wight1 Dictionary.com Unabridged
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Examples from the Web for whit
In 1997, Whit Stillman re-created Studio 54 in its ornate lobby for his film The Last Days of Disco.
Have you and Whit wanted to hook up again since The Last Days of Disco?
Two decades on from his masterpiece on anti-Americanism abroad, Whit Stillman remains obsessed with native-expat dynamics.
Even so, the comments were illuminating in that they show that Obama is of no frame of mind to change the current policy a whit.
The tone was set early when Republican pollster Whit Ayers declared that “we are in an epic struggle against secular socialism.”
"This room looks every whit as grand as it used to look to me when I was a boy," he said.
The praise is not a whit too high; the truth could not have been better said.
Patricks clover works by opposite, I guess, but she drove along, her high spirits not a whit repressed by what had happened.
That the standard of measurement she applied was tremendously high made no difference to Clancy, abated no whit her judgment.
Now, suppose six-feet-two conqueror, and five-feet-eight beaten; would Sayers have been a whit the less gallant and meritorious?
British Dictionary definitions for whit (1 of 2)
noun
(usually used with a negative) the smallest particle; iota; jothe has changed not a whit
Word Origin for whit
C15: probably variant of wight 1
British Dictionary definitions for whit (2 of 2)
adjective
of or relating to Whitsuntide
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