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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | perceptive, quick-witted |
| Synonyms: | acute, adroit, alert, apt, astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, canny, clever, critical, cute, discerning, discriminating, fast, foxy*, having smarts, ingenious, intelligent, keen, knowing, nimble, nobody's fool, not born yesterday, observant, on the ball, original, penetrating, penetrative, quick, quick on the trigger, quick on the uptake, ready, resourceful, savvy*, sensitive, slick, smart, smart as a tack, subtle, wise |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, stupid, unintelligent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | slick |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | smart, clever |
| Synonyms: | adroit, cagey, canny, deft, dextrous, foxy, glib, knowing, meretricious, plausible, professional, quick, sharp, shrewd, skillful, sly, smooth, smooth-spoken, sophisticated, specious, streetwise, unctuous, urbane, wise |
| Antonyms: | amateurish, clumsy, stupid, unclever, unintelligent |
| Main Entry: | sly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clever, devious |
| Synonyms: | arch, artful, astute, bluffing, cagey, calculating, canny, captious, conniving, covert, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, designing, dishonest, dishonorable, dissembling, double-dealing, elusive, foxy, furtive, guileful, illusory, impish, ingenious, insidious, intriguing, mean, mischievous, plotting, roguish, scheming, secret, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, smart, smooth, sneaking, stealthy, subtle, traitorous, treacherous, tricky, underhand, unscrupulous, wily |
| Antonyms: | honest, open, simple, straight, straightforward, unclever |
| Main Entry: | smart |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intelligent |
| Synonyms: | acute, adept, agile, alert, apt, astute, bold, brainy, bright, brilliant, brisk, canny, clever, crafty, effective, eggheaded, fresh, genius, good, impertinent, ingenious, keen, knowing, long-haired, nervy, nimble, on the ball, pert, pointed, quick, quick-witted, ready, resourceful, sassy, sharp, shrewd, skull, slick*, whiz*, wise |
| Antonyms: | dull, stupid, unintelligent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sparing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careful, economical |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, canny, chary, close, cost-conscious, frugal, humane, mean, money-conscious, parsimonious, provident, prudent, saving, stewardly, stingy, thrifty, tight, tight-fisted, tolerant, ungiving, unwasteful, wary |
| Antonyms: | careless, lavish, spendthrift, uncareful |
| Main Entry: | street smart |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shrewd |
| Synonyms: | artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, clever, crafty, cunning, experienced, foxy*, ingenious, intelligent, perceptive, quick-witted, savvy*, seasoned, sharp, slick*, sly, smart, smooth, streetwise, wily, wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thoughtful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | caring, mindful |
| Synonyms: | anxious, astute, attentive, aware, benign, canny, careful, cautious, charitable, chivalrous, circumspect, civil, concerned, considerate, cooperative, courteous, deliberate, diplomatic, discreet, friendly, gallant, gracious, heedful, helpful, indulgent, kind, kindly, neighborly, obliging, observant, observative, observing, polite, prudent, regardful, responsive, sensitive, social, solicitous, tactful, unselfish, wary, well thought-out, well-bred |
| Antonyms: | careless, heedless, inattentive, inconsiderate, uncaring, unmindful, unthoughtful |
| Main Entry: | thrifty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | economical |
| Synonyms: | canny, careful, chary, cheap, chintzy, close*, close-fisted, conserving, frugal, mean, parsimonious, penny-pinching, preserving, provident, prudent, saving, scrimpy, sparing, steal, stingy*, tight*, unwasteful |
| Notes: | frugal refers more directly to practicing economy in the course of shopping for goods or services, whereas thrifty applies more to the preservation of funds |
| Antonyms: | extravagant, spendthrift, uneconomical, wasteful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careful, cautious |
| Synonyms: | alert, attentive, cagey, calculating, canny, chary, circumspect, considerate, discreet, distrustful, doubting, frugal, gingerly, guarded, handling with kid gloves, heedful, keeping on one's toes, leery, on guard, on the lookout, on the qui vive, provident, prudent, safe, saving, sly, sparing, suspicious, thinking twice, thrifty, unwasteful, vigilant, walking on eggs, watchful, watching one's step, watching out, wide-awake |
| Notes: | to be wary is to be cautious or watchful; weary means fatigued or tired |
| Antonyms: | careless, foolish, heedless, incautious, indiscreet, rash, reckless |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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