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clever
[ klev-er ]
adjective
- mentally bright; having sharp or quick intelligence; able.
Synonyms: expert, apt, gifted, smart, quick-witted, talented, ingenious
Antonyms: stupid
- superficially skillful, witty, or original in character or construction; facile:
It was an amusing, clever play, but of no lasting value.
- showing inventiveness or originality; ingenious:
His clever device was the first to solve the problem.
- adroit with the hands or body; dexterous or nimble.
Synonyms: handy, agile, skillful
Antonyms: clumsy
- Older Use.
- suitable; convenient; satisfactory.
- in good health.
clever
/ ˈklɛvə /
adjective
- displaying sharp intelligence or mental alertness
- adroit or dexterous, esp with the hands
- smart in a superficial way
- informal.sly; cunning
- dialect.predicative; used with a negative healthy; fit
Derived Forms
- ˈcleverness, noun
- ˈcleverish, adjective
- ˈcleverly, adverb
Other Words From
- clever·ish adjective
- clever·ish·ly adverb
- clever·ly adverb
- clever·ness noun
- over·clever adjective
- over·clever·ly adverb
- over·clever·ness noun
- un·clever adjective
- un·clever·ly adverb
- un·clever·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of clever1
Example Sentences
Few of us are as clever as my Inspector Morse-loving friend.
The clever part is that the present was “re-gifted” from city and state tax revenues.
The clever crooks managed to rack up $2 million in profits over a year, Ares said.
He wants to show her how clever he is and, more importantly, how well the script is going, that there is hope, a future.
The small band of French critics helped shift the view of Hitchcock from a clever, popular entertainer to a Significant Artist.
And so this is why the clever performer cannot reproduce the effect of a speech of Demosthenes or Daniel Webster.
I have taken a violent dislike to more than one clever American man merely because he trailed his voice through his nose.
For some time he said nothing, and then he remarked that I was very clever, but he did n't see a word of sense in what I said.
It was as if he had said: "You think yourself very clever, but do you suppose that I can't read the notes in a time-table?"
But all men at times betray themselves, and some betrayals, if scarcely clever, are not without nobility.
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