Definition of "afterwit" in English

noun

1. Wisdom which comes after the event.

   • 1692, Roger L’Estrange (translator), Fables of Æsop, London: R. Sare et al., Fable 162, “A Nightingale and a Bat,” There’s No Recalling of what’s Gone and Past; so that After-Wit comes too Late when the Mischief is Done.

2. The lack of forethought.

3. A good comeback, retort one thinks of only after the end of discussion or after leaving a social gathering.