Clever
['klevə] or ['klɛvɚ]
Definition
(adj.) showing inventiveness and skill; 'a clever gadget'; 'the cunning maneuvers leading to his success'; 'an ingenious solution to the problem' .
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Definition
(a.) Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert.
(a.) Showing skill or adroitness in the doer or former; as, a clever speech; a clever trick.
(a.) Having fitness, propriety, or suitableness.
(a.) Well-shaped; handsome.
(a.) Good-natured; obliging.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Dexterous, skilful, apt, handy, ready, quick, smart, expert, able.[2]. [U. S.] Kind, benign, amiable, obliging, accommodating, well-meaning, well-disposed, good-natured, kind-hearted.
Editor: Monica
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Able, ready, talented, quick, ingenious, dexterous, adroit, expert, gifted,quick-witted, skillful, well-contrived
ANT:Weak, dull, stupid, slow, illcontrived, doltish, uninventive, awkward, clumsy,bungling, botched
Editor: Val
Definition
adj. able or dexterous: ingenious: skilful: (U.S.) good-natured.—ns. Cleveral′ity Clev′erness.—adj. Clev′erish somewhat clever.—adv. Clev′erly.
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Examples
- I can only suppose now, that it was a part of his policy, as a very clever man, habitually to deceive his own instruments. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- They are all remarkably clever; and they have so many pretty ways. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The strengtheners and the lowerers were all clever men in somebody's opinion, which is really as much as can be said for any living talents. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- How should you like to grow up a clever man, and write books, eh? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- She is not a clever girl, but she has better sense than you are aware of, and does not deserve to have her understanding spoken of so slightingly. Jane Austen. Emma.
- But she's patienter than others would be, and is clever too, and always willing, up to the full mark of her strength and over. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- What original notions you clever men have! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Well, you be a clever lady! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It was about as clever as if a man brought home a hungry tiger to convince his wife of her need of him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Besides, you are very clever, and I never was. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He thought it very well done of Mr. Knightley to invite themvery kind and sensiblemuch cleverer than dining out. Jane Austen. Emma.
- We are all scoundrels more or less, only some are cleverer at concealing it than other people, he said carelessly. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I am ten times cleverer than many men who pass. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Inventors and discoverers came by nature, they thought, for cleverer people to profit by. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Be infinitely cleverer and not half so conceited. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I am not prepared with any arguments to disprove them, and much better, cleverer fellows than I am go in for them entirely. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But I am a just man even to my enemy, and I will acknowledge beforehand that they are cleverer brains than I thought them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- For my own part, I like a medical man more on a footing with the servants; they are often all the cleverer. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Cleverer heads than mine might have seen his drift. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Every one knows you're a thousand times handsomer and cleverer than Bertha; but then you're not nasty. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Emma is spoiled by being the cleverest of her family. Jane Austen. Emma.
- One, the cleverest and most celebrated among them, took me aside, and bidding me prepare for the worst, told me--me, the madman! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Young Stubble's eyes brightened up at this, for Dobbin was greatly respected in the regiment, as the best officer and the cleverest man in it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I took the best and cleverest man I had ever known, said Mrs. Garth, convinced that _she_ would never have loved any one who came short of that mark. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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