Clever

Quick meaning: Clever is an adjective meaning Nimble with hands or body; dexterous; skillful; adept.

Meaning

Nimble with hands or body; dexterous; skillful; adept.

More Meanings

1. Quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas; intelligent.
2. Mentally quick and resourceful; skilled at achieving what one wants in a mentally agile and inventive way.
3. Smart, intelligent, or witty; mentally quick or sharp.
4. (of objects or actions) Showing mental quickness and resourcefulness.
5. (of objects or actions) Showing inventiveness or originality; witty.
6. (UK, colloquial, chiefly in the negative) Fit and healthy; free from fatigue or illness.
7. (archaic) Sane; in one's right mind.

Example Sentences

clever like a fox

With a clever lawyer, she could easily be acquitted.

My dad is quite clever with his hands, especially at carpentry.

And so make life, death, and that vast forever / One grand, sweet song.

Word Forms

• cleverer
• cleverest

Synonyms for clever

Depending on context, synonyms include quick-witted, sharp-witted, cunning, street-smart, adroit, talented.

Antonyms for clever

Common opposites include dull, stupid, ineffectual, naive, clumsy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include adroit, ingenious, artful, intelligent, canny, cagey.

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