Word Meanings - OUTWIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft. They did so much outwit and outwealth us ! Gauden.

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• OUTWIT
  The faculty of acquiring wesdom by observation and experience, or the wisdom so acquired; -- opposed to inwit. Piers Plowman.
• CRAFTY
  1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. "Crafty work." Piers Plowman. 2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif. 3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
• SURPASS
  To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel. This would surpass Common revenge and interrupt his joy. Milton. Syn. -- To exceed; excel; outdo; outstrip.
• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• SURPASSING
  Eminently excellent; exceeding others. "With surpassing glory crowned." Milton. -- Sur*pass"ing*ly, adv. -- Sur*pass"ing*ness, n.
• WISDOM LITERATURE
  The class of ancient Hebrew writings which deal reflectively with general ethical and religious topics, as distinguished from the prophetic and liturgical literature, and from the law. It is comprised chiefly in the books of Job, Proverbs,
• CRAFTER
  a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman.
• CRAFTLESS
  Without craft or cunning. Helpless, craftless, and innocent people. Jer. Taylor.
• CUNNINGLY
  In a cunning manner; with cunning.
• CRAFTINESS
  Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. Job. v. 13.
• CUNNINGMAN
  A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. Hudibras.
• SUPERIORLY
  In a superior position or manner.
• CRAFTSMANSHIP
  The work of a craftsman.
• SUPERIORITY
  The quality, state, or condition of being superior; as, superiority of rank; superiority in merit. Syn. -- Preëminence; excellence; predominancy; prevalence; ascendency; odds; advantage.
• CRAFT
  A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense. The evolutions of the numerous tiny craft moving over the lake. Prof. Wilson. Small crafts, small vessels, as sloops, schooners, ets. (more info) OS., G., Sw., & Dan. kraft
• DEFEATURED
  Changed in features; deformed. Features when defeatured in the . . . way I have described. De Quincey.
• WISDOM
  1. The quality of being wise; knowledge, and the capacity to make due use of it; knowledge of the best ends and the best means; discernment and judgment; discretion; sagacity; skill; dexterity. We speak also not in wise words of man's wisdom, but
• OVERREACHER
  One who overreaches; one who cheats; a cheat.
• CRAFTSMAN
  One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.
• DEFEATURE
  1. Overthrow; defeat. "Nothing but loss in their defeature." Beau. & Fl. 2. Disfigurement; deformity. "Strange defeatures in my face." Shak.
• KINGCRAFT
  The craft of kings; the art of governing as a sovereign; royal policy. Prescott.
• UNWISDOM
  Want of wisdom; unwise conduct or action; folly; simplicity; ignorance. Sumptuary laws are among the exploded fallacies which we have outgrown, and we smile at the unwisdom which could except to regulate private habits and manners by statute. J.
• WITCRAFT
  1. Art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit. Camden. 2. The art of reasoning; logic.
• PENCRAFT
  1. Penmanship; skill in writing; chirography. 2. The art of composing or writing; authorship. I would not give a groat for that person's knowledge in pencraft. S
• STARCRAFT
  Astrology. Tennyson.
• WITCHCRAFT
  1. The practices or art of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with evil spirits. 2. Power more than natural; irresistible influence. He hath a witchcraft Over the king in 's tongue. Shak.
• STATECRAFT
  The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
• HANDCRAFT
  See HANDICRAFT
• UNCUNNINGLY
  Ignorantly.
• OVERCUNNING
  Exceedingly or excessively cunning.