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| Main Entry: |
resourceful
 [ri-sawrs-fuhl, -sohrs-, -zawrs-, -zohrs-] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginative |
| Synonyms: | able, active, adventurous, aggressive, bright, capable, clever, creative, enterprising, ingenious, intelligent, inventive, original, quick-witted, sharp, talented, venturesome |
| Antonyms: | dull, uncreative, unimaginative, unresourceful |
| Main Entry: | artful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | skillful; cunning |
| Synonyms: | adept, adroit, clever, crafty, designing, dexterous, foxy*, ingenious, masterly, politic, proficient, resourceful, scheming, sharp, shrewd, slick*, sly, smart, smooth*, tricky, wily |
| Antonyms: | artless, ingenuous, naive, unskillful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | clever |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bright, ingenious |
| Synonyms: | 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: | awkward, foolish, idiotic, ignorant, naive, senseless, stupid, unclever |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Example Sentences
- It has bounced back from crisis after crisis, proving itself far more resourceful than skeptics might have guessed.
- The miserly constraints spurred her to be fiendishly resourceful.
- Not only does this test your skills as a cook, but it also pushes you to be resourceful and think of uncommon food juxtapositions.
| Main Entry: | ingenious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clever; brilliant |
| Synonyms: | able, adroit, artistic, bright, canny, crafty, creative, cunning, deviceful, dexterous, gifted, imaginative, innovational, innovative, innovatory, intelligent, inventive, original, ready, resourceful, shrewd, skillful, sly, subtle |
| Notes: | ingenious is 'clever, brilliant'; ingenuous is 'frank, candid' or 'naïve' |
| Antonyms: | awkward, dumb, ignorant, incompetent, inept, stupid |
| Main Entry: | intelligent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very smart |
| Synonyms: | able, acute, alert, alive, all there, apt, astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, calculating, capable, clever, comprehending, creative, deep*, discerning, enlightened, exceptional, highbrow, imaginative, ingenious, instructed, inventive, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, original, penetrating, perceptive, perspicacious, profound, quick, quick-witted, rational, ready, reasonable, resourceful, responsible, sage, sharp, smart, thinking, together*, understanding, well-informed, whiz*, wise, witty |
| Antonyms: | foolish, idiotic, imbecile, stupid, unintelligent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inventive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative |
| Synonyms: | adroit, artistic, avant-garde, breaking new ground, causative, constructive, demiurgic, deviceful, fertile, forgetive, formative, fruitful, gifted, imaginative, ingenious, innovational, innovative, innovatory, inspired, original, originative, poetical, productive, resourceful, teeming |
| Antonyms: | stolen, uncreative, uninventive, unoriginal |
| Main Entry: | original |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fresh, new |
| Synonyms: | avant garde, breaking new ground, causal, causative, conceiving, creative, demiurgic, devising, envisioning, fertile, formative, generative, imaginative, ingenious, innovational, innovative, innovatory, inspiring, inventive, novel, originative, productive, quick, ready, resourceful, seminal, sensitive, unconventional, unprecedented, untried, unusual |
| Antonyms: | borrowed, hackneyed, old, used, worn |
| Main Entry: | ready |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | skillful, intelligent |
| Synonyms: | active, acute, adept, adroit, alert, apt, astute, bright, brilliant, clever, deft, dexterous, dynamic, expert, handy, keen, live, masterly, perceptive, proficient, prompt, quick, quick-witted, rapid, resourceful, sharp, skilled, smart |
| Antonyms: | immature, slow, uneducated, unprepared, unskilled, untrained |
| Main Entry: | sharp |
| 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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