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Synonyms for clever
ˈklɛv ərclever

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Wiktionary4.0 / 3 votes

  1. cleveradjective

    Synonyms:
    quick-witted, sharp-witted

    Antonyms:
    dull, stupid

  2. cleveradjective

    Antonyms:
    naive, ineffectual

  3. cleveradjective

    Antonyms:
    clumsy

English Synonyms and Antonyms4.5 / 2 votes

  1. clever

    Clever, as used in England, especially implies an aptitude for study or learning, and for excellent tho not preeminent mental achievement. The early New England usage as implying simple and weak good nature has largely affected the use of the word throughout the United States, where it has never been much in favor. Smart, indicating dashing ability, is now coming to have a suggestion of unscrupulousness, similar to that of the word sharp, which makes its use a doubtful compliment. The discriminating use of such words as able, gifted, talented, etc., is greatly preferable to an excessive use of the word clever. Compare ACUMEN; ASTUTE; POWER.

    Synonyms:
    able, adroit, apt, bright, capable, dexterous, expert, gifted, happy, ingenious, intellectual, intelligent, keen, knowing, quick, quick-witted, sharp, skilful, smart, talented

    Antonyms:
    awkward, bungling, clumsy, dull, foolish, idiotic, ignorant, senseless, slow, stupid, thick-headed, witless

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms3.0 / 2 votes

  1. clever

    Synonyms:
    able, ready, talented, quick, ingenious, dexterous, adroit, expert, gifted, quick-witted, skillful, well-contrived

    Antonyms:
    weak, dull, stupid, slow, illcontrived, doltish, uninventive, awkward, clumsy, bungling, botched

Princeton's WordNet4.5 / 2 votes

  1. cagey, cagy, canny, cleveradjective

    showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others

    "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound"

    Synonyms:
    cagey, ingenious, chary, cagy, apt, cunning, canny

    Antonyms:
    unintelligent, stupid, maladroit

  2. apt, cleveradjective

    mentally quick and resourceful

    "an apt pupil"; "you are a clever man...you reason well and your wit is bold"-Bram Stoker

    Synonyms:
    disposed(p), minded(p), cagey, given(p), ingenious, apt(p), cagy, apt, cunning, tending(p), liable(p), canny, apposite, pertinent

    Antonyms:
    stupid, unintelligent, maladroit

  3. clever, cunning, ingeniousadjective

    showing inventiveness and skill

    "a clever gadget"; "the cunning maneuvers leading to his success"; "an ingenious solution to the problem"

    Synonyms:
    tricksy, canny, cunning, cagy, slick, sly, cute, cagey, wily, apt, ingenious, knavish, crafty, guileful, dodgy, tricky, foxy

    Antonyms:
    stupid, maladroit, unintelligent

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. smart

    to understand quickly.

    he is so smart

    Submitted by anonymous on September 22, 2020  
  2. anansi

    Submitted by anonymous on November 19, 2019  

Dictionary of English Synonymes1.0 / 1 vote

  1. cleveradjective

    Synonyms:
    dexterous, skilful, apt, handy, ready, quick, smart, expert, able

  2. cleveradjective

    Synonyms:
    [U. S.] kind, benign, amiable, obliging, accommodating, well-meaning, well-disposed, good-natured, kind-hearted

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. cleveradjective

    Synonyms:
    adroit, skillful, expert, ingenious, deft, dexterous

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How to use clever in a sentence?

  1. David Letterman:

    I like it, it's clever. 9-9-9. It's fun, you ought to get some sort of toll-free number. You dial 9-9-9, you get a free pizza.

  2. Frank Moore Colby:

    Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

  3. Steve Brusatte:

    The ancestors of T. rex would have looked a whole lot like Timurlengia, a horse-sized hunter with a big brain and keen hearing that would put us to shame, only after these ancestral tyrannosaurs evolved their clever brains and sharp senses did they grow into the colossal sizes of T. rex. Tyrannosaurs had to get smart before they got big.

  4. Gustavo Arellano:

    Tostitos remains the biggest brand ... and it all started in the mid-1970s as a way to offer a more authentic alternative than Doritos, through clever marketing, they took over the tortilla chip business.

  5. Charles Talleyrand:

    To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.


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