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cleverest

ADJECTIVE

bright, ingenious

Synonyms

WEAK

able adept adroit alert apt astute brainy brilliant cagey canny capable competent crackerjack cunning deep dexterous/dextrous discerning egghead expert foxy gifted good handy intelligent inventive keen knowing knowledgeable many-sided nimble nobody's fool pretty pro qualified quick quick on trigger quick-witted rational resourceful sagacious savvy sensible sharp shrewd skilled skillful slick sly smart sprightly talented versatile wise witty

Antonyms

WEAK

awkward foolish idiotic ignorant naive senseless stupid unclever

Example Sentences

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She’s costumed like a clown, but her screenplay is as confident as an antihero’s cleverest heist.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2025

Another says Reeves "is normally the cleverest person in the room", and that she does not blag.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2024

As fantastical as “Doctor Who” can get, the cleverest being in the universe always has an explanation for everything.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2023

Leave it to Hollywood’s writers, now striking, to have the cleverest signs: “HBO Max Pays HBO Minimum,” reads one.

From Washington Times • Dec. 6, 2023

Yet these were not minor theories: one was held by the best philosophers of the later Middle Ages; the other by the cleverest Copernicans of the late sixteenth century.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton