mindmap root((幽默)) wit suggests the power to evoke laughter by remarks showing verbal felicity or ingenuity and swift perception especially of the incongruous: appreciate the ~ of Wilde and Shaw. humor implies an ability to perceive the ludicrous, the comical, and the absurd in human life and to express these usually with keen insight and sympathetic understanding and without bitterness: a person with a finely honed sense of ~. irony applies to a manner of expression in which the intended meaning is the opposite of the expressed meaning: with wry ~, he said, 'Thank God I'm an atheist!' sarcasm applies to savagely humorous expression frequently in the form of irony that is intended to cut or wound: a cynic much given to heartless ~. satire applies to writing that exposes or ridicules conduct, doctrines, or institutions either by direct criticism or more often through irony, parody, or caricature: the play is a ~ on contemporary living arrangements. repartee implies the power or art of answering quickly, pointedly, or wittily or to an interchange of such responses: a partygoer well known for razor-sharp ~.