Word Meanings - CLEVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

cloven; or clifer a claw, perh. connected with E. cleave to divide, split, the meaning of E. clever perh. coming from the idea 1. Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert. Though there were many clever

Additional info about word: CLEVER

cloven; or clifer a claw, perh. connected with E. cleave to divide, split, the meaning of E. clever perh. coming from the idea 1. Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert. Though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds. Macaulay. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. C. Kingsley. 2. Showing skill or adroitness in the doer or former; as, a clever speech; a clever trick. Byron. 3. Having fitness, propriety, or suitableness. "T would sound more clever To me and to my heirs forever. Swift. 4. Well-shaped; handsome. "The girl was a tight, clever wench as any was." Arbuthnot. 5. Good-natured; obliging. Syn. -- See Smart.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CLEVER)

• Able
• Strong
• powerful
• clever
• skillful
• talented
• capable
• fitted
• efficient
• effective
• learned
• gifted
• masterly
• telling
• nervous
• vigorous
• Adroit
• Handy
• dexterous
• expert
• proficient
• Apt
• Fit
• apposite
• meet
• liable
• becoming
• appropriate
• ready
• fitting
• suitable
• pertinent
• qualified
• prompt
• adapted
• likely
• Bright
• Shining
• brilliant
• burnished
• luminous
• lucid
• sparkling
• limpid
• happy
• witty
• joyous
• cheerful
• radiant
• Diplomatic
• Judicious
• knowing
• wise
• prudent
• well-contrived
• astute
• politic
• discreet
• well-planned
• well-conceived
• sagacious
• well-managed

Related words: (words related to CLEVER)

• EXPERT
  Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery. A valiant and most expert
• KNOWINGLY
  1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype. 2. By experience. Shak.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• SHINTIYAN; SHINTYAN
  A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Mohammedan countries.
• SKILLFUL
  1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
• DIPLOMATIC
  A minister, official agent, or envoy to a foreign court; a diplomatist.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• SHINDLE
  A shingle; also, a slate for roofing. Holland.
• SHINGLER
  1. One who shingles. 2. A machine for shingling puddled iron.
• QUALIFICATION
  1. The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified. 2. That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success;
• RADIANT ENGINE
  A semiradial engine. See Radial engine, above.
• TALENT
  tolerare, tollere, to lift up, sustain, endure. See Thole, v. t., 1. Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minæ or 6,000 drachmæ. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• KNOWINGNESS
  The state or quality of being knowing or intelligent; shrewdness; skillfulness.
• ASTUTE
  Critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty. Syn. -- Keen; eagle-eyed; penetrating; skilled; discriminating; cunning; sagacious; subtle; wily; crafty. As*tute"ly, adv. -- As*tute"ness, n.
• BURNISHER
  1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
• TELLER
  1. One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer. 2. One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king. Cowell. 3. An officer
• GIFTEDNESS
  The state of being gifted. Echard.
• SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
  A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
• DILUCIDATION
  The act of making clear. Boyle.
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• UNCAPABLE
  Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke.
• PATELLULA
  A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.
• INCAPABLE
  Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit
• INEFFICIENT
  1. Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures. 2. Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen;
• SCUTELLUM
  A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens. The third of the four pieces forming the upper part of a thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.