Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

have it

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 6.51 in modern English

Syllables: have it
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To state or hold as true; to insist.

verb

To buy: to purchase.

verb

To accept (an excuse, a behavior, etc); to believe.

verb

To be the object of ridicule, rebuke, critique, etc.

verb

To possess some desirable quality or ability; to be all that.

Example Sentences

"Conventional wisdom has it that heat rises, but in fact heat diffuses: hot air rises."
"He'll have it that I am maliciously misleading him."
"Yet he was kidnapped and "taken for a ride" in the fashion which Al Capone did so much to popularize in Chicago; and one story has it that he was shot only because the rope with which he was to have been hanged did not arrive in time."
"Twenty quid, you say? Yes, we'll have it, thank you."
"(Well, for only twenty quid, we're having it all day long, aren't we?)"
"He tried to make excuses but she wouldn't have it / was not having it / was having none of it."

Inflected Forms

has it (present, singular) having it (participle, present) had it (participle, past) had it (past)

Phrases

as fate would have it as luck would have it have had it let's have it

Frequently Paired Words

as fate would have it as luck would have it have had it let's have it

Synonyms

hold buy it get it

Questions

What does have it mean?: To state or hold as true; to insist.

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