to wit

Adverb

Meaning

as follows

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

namely videlicet viz. scilicet that is to say like especially particularly specifically specially expressly that is strictly speaking in other words such as
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Antonyms

however nevertheless conversely but although still
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Examples

A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest, able to find every tree, but each one coming as a surprise. Roger Ebert

Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit. Rita Mae Brown

There is a significant Latin proverb to wit Who will guard the guards. Josh Billings

Wine sets an edge to wit. English Proverb

According to the investigation team led by Inspector Monday Omoigui, the suspects were arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos on a one count charge of felony, to wit, murder. Source: Internet

Allgemeine Systemtheorie is not directly consistent with an interpretation often put on 'general system theory,' to wit, that it is a (scientific) "theory of general systems." Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

to whom this may concern To winnow to wisse to withdraw to wither to withhold