Definition of Clever
1. Adjective. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others. "Too clever to be sound"
2. Adjective. Mentally quick and resourceful. "You are a clever man...you reason well and your wit is bold"
3. Adjective. Showing inventiveness and skill. "An ingenious solution to the problem"
Similar to: Adroit
Derivative terms: Cleverness, Ingeniousness, Ingenuity
Definition of Clever
1. a. Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert.
Definition of Clever
1. mentally keen [adj -ERER, -EREST] : CLEVERLY [adv]
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Clever
Literary usage of Clever
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Index to Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends by Mary Huse Eastman (1915)
"clever goat. Rouse. Talking thrush and other tales from India. clever Grethel.
... clever student and the master of black arts. Pyle, H. Wonder clock. ..."
2. Household Stories, from the Collection of the Bros: Grimm by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (1883)
"Then clever Else took down the jug from the hook in the wall, and as she was on
her way to the cellar she rattled the lid up and down so as to pass away the ..."
3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1882)
""A clever TOWN BUILT BY QUAKERS." T HE capital of Penn, founded two hundred ...
But the word "clever" may stand. It applies both in the Northern and in the ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"clever as he is, if you do that, he is blown on the first burst, and, ... Just so
with your clever contributor. He can perform a paragraph at a fair pace—a ..."
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