clever - WordReference.com Dictionary of English

WordReference.com English Dictionary

clever:

in Spanish | in French | in Italian
English synonyms| in context | images

Listen:

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
clever/ˈklevə(r)/

▶adjective (cleverer, cleverest)

1 quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas.
■ skilful; adroit.

2 Brit. informal healthy or well: I didn't feel too clever.

– phrases
too clever by half informal annoyingly proud of one's cleverness, and liable to overreach oneself.

– derivatives
cleverly adverb,
cleverness noun.

– origin ME (in the sense ‘quick to catch hold’, later ‘manually skilful’, then ‘mentally agile’): perh. of Du. or Low Ger. origin, and rel. to cleave2.

'clever' also found in these Oxford entries:

adroit - artful - artifice - blag - bon mot - box - brain - brainbox - brainstorm - brainwave - bright spark - brilliant - casuist - clever-clever - clever Dick - cook - cunning - cute - devil - fly - handsome - ingenious - intellect - masterstroke - point - pretty - quaint - resourceful - riposte - shilling - smart - sophism - sophist - subtle - suss - touché - wheeze - whizz - wit - wrinkle

Forum discussions with the word(s) "clever" in the title:

_ clever/intelligent child as Tom is
...a young man as the society of clever women
( blank ) ( blank ) student in his class is as clever as he.
"He is not clever, I think"?
A man so clever as he is not likely to do such a thing
acute - clever
an easy prey for/to clever salesmen
as clever as a stick in a bucket of pig swill
clever
clever (BE synonym)
clever accounting
Clever as she was, she couldn't pass her exam.
clever clogs
Clever cookie
Clever old
clever salesman/salesmen
Clever vs smart
Comparative, superlative: clever
Comparative, superlative: clever.
Don't be clever with me.
enough /too clever
He is not clever. Transform to passive voice?
how clever people are "in making sure" or "at making"
instead of communicative and clever
is more clever than fair
It is clever of a crow to build a nest there.
more clever or cleverer
more clever than intelligent
not half as clever
She is too clever woman to stay ... (error?)
more...

Look up "clever" at Merriam-Webster
Look up "clever" at dictionary.com

Let Google and FB know that you like WR!

Report an inappropriate ad.