clever
IPA: kɫˈɛvɝ
noun
- A city in Missouri.
adjective
- Nimble with hands or body; skillful; adept.
- Quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas; intelligent.
- Mentally quick and resourceful; skilled at achieving what one wants in a mentally agile and inventive way.
- Smart, intelligent, or witty; mentally quick or sharp.
- (archaic) Sane; in one's right mind.
- (of objects or actions) Showing mental quickness and resourcefulness.
- (of objects or actions) Showing inventiveness or originality; witty.
- (UK, colloquial, chiefly in the negative) Fit and healthy; free from fatigue or illness.
- (US, dated) Good-natured; obliging.
- (anthropology, of an Aboriginal Australian) Possessing magical abilities.
- (obsolete) Fit; suitable; having propriety.
- (obsolete) Well-shaped; handsome.
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Examples of "clever" in Sentences
- It was a set up by the clever fiend.
- He is clever and has superciliousness.
- The monkey is the symbol of cleverness.
- The monk was too clever for the General.
- It was simultaneously clever and sensuous.
- Being sapiential and clever are different.
- The man is clever, perseverant, and malevolent.
- It is a coalition of the clever, the ignorant and the opportunist.
- Although fairly hyperactive, the nephews are also clever and intelligent.
- Among them are clever, dexterous, experienced, skillful, cunning and sly.