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clever
adjective as in bright, ingenious
Weak matches
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
Example Sentences
The smuggling gangs are clever and “know the terrain very well”, he explains.
Surprisingly, the clever solutions that engineers and physicists come up with in the lab, turn out to be out there in living nature.
The scammers were clever, using targeted information from their victims' social media, investigators believe.
Wallabies demonstrated another side to their game when Faessler was driven over from a maul before Wales finally fired an attacking shot with a clever finish from Wainwright.
He found Marks to a very clever and convincing man.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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