clever

Etymology
From East Anglian dialectal English, from ,


 * perhaps from, ;
 * or perhaps from, , or East/ (compare , probably derived from );
 * or dialectal, itself borrowed from , related to , from , from , related to the Old English word above;
 * possibly influenced by 🇨🇬 (compare ).

Related to. Perhaps influenced by 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) Nimble with hands or body; skillful; adept.
 * , (collator), Child's Ballads, 198: "Bonny John Seton",
 * The Highland men, they're clever men At handling sword and shield,
 * 1) Quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas; intelligent.
 * 2) Mentally quick and resourceful; skilled at achieving what one wants in a mentally agile and inventive way.
 * 3) * 1890, (collator), Molly Whuppie, English Fairy Tales,
 * The youngest of the three strange lassies was called Molly Whuppie, and she was very clever. She noticed that before they went to bed the giant put straw ropes round her neck and her sisters', and round his own lassies' necks, he put gold chains. So Molly took care and did not fall asleep, but waited till she was sure every one was sleeping sound. Then she slipped out of the bed, and took the straw ropes off her own and her sisters' necks, and took the gold chains off the giant's lassies. She then put the straw ropes on the giant's lassies and the gold on herself and her sisters, and lay down.
 * 1) Smart, intelligent, or witty; mentally quick or sharp.
 * 2) * 19th c,, A Farewell,
 * Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make life, death, and that vast forever / One grand, sweet song.
 * 1) * 1912,, (translator), The Brothers Karamazov, Book V, Chapter 7: "It's Always Worth While Speaking to a Clever Man",
 * I would have sent Alyosha, but what use is Alyosha in a thing like that? I send you just because you are a clever fellow. Do you suppose I don't see that? You know nothing about timber, but you've got an eye.
 * 1)  ; in one's right mind.
 * 2)  Showing mental quickness and resourcefulness.
 * 3)  Showing inventiveness or originality; witty.
 * 4)  Fit and healthy; free from fatigue or illness.
 * 5)  Good-natured; obliging.
 * 6)  Possessing magical abilities.
 * 7)  Fit; suitable; having propriety.
 * 8) * 18th c,, (later lines), Imitation of Horace, 1852,  (collator), Half-hours with the Best Authors, Volume 4, page 188,
 * I can't but think 'twould sound more clever, To me and to my heirs forever.
 * 1)  Well-shaped; handsome.
 * 1)  Fit and healthy; free from fatigue or illness.
 * 2)  Good-natured; obliging.
 * 3)  Possessing magical abilities.
 * 4)  Fit; suitable; having propriety.
 * 5) * 18th c,, (later lines), Imitation of Horace, 1852,  (collator), Half-hours with the Best Authors, Volume 4, page 188,
 * I can't but think 'twould sound more clever, To me and to my heirs forever.
 * 1)  Well-shaped; handsome.
 * 1)  Possessing magical abilities.
 * 2)  Fit; suitable; having propriety.
 * 3) * 18th c,, (later lines), Imitation of Horace, 1852,  (collator), Half-hours with the Best Authors, Volume 4, page 188,
 * I can't but think 'twould sound more clever, To me and to my heirs forever.
 * 1)  Well-shaped; handsome.
 * 1) * 18th c,, (later lines), Imitation of Horace, 1852,  (collator), Half-hours with the Best Authors, Volume 4, page 188,
 * I can't but think 'twould sound more clever, To me and to my heirs forever.
 * 1)  Well-shaped; handsome.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:intelligent
 * See also Thesaurus:intelligent

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Danish: kvik,, snild
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: tapaidh
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: вмі́лий,
 * Walloon:, , , , subtil, subtile


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Danish: smart
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Ingrian: selvä, huima
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: tapaidh
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swahili:
 * Ukrainian: зді́бний, вмі́лий, обдаро́ваний
 * Walloon:


 * Catalan: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Latin: versūtus, dolōsus, vafer
 * Maori: mūrere
 * Sanskrit:
 * Somali:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Turkish: ,


 * Afrikaans: slim
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: ذَكِيّ
 * Egyptian Arabic: شاطر
 * Moroccan Arabic: دكي, مطور
 * South Levantine Arabic: شاطر
 * Armenian: ,
 * Assamese: বুধিয়ক
 * Asturian: llistu
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: аҡыллы
 * Belarusian: разу́мны
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:, , ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, smart
 * Darkinjung: girrâchi
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: sprita
 * Estonian: nutikas
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ჭკვიანი
 * German:, , , , ,
 * Alemannic German: arig
 * Gothic: 𐍃𐌽𐌿𐍄𐍂𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ingrian: tarkka, meelövä, selvä, kavala, huima
 * Irish: cliste
 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kazakh: ақылды
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, 똑똑-한 ,  , 영리-한
 * Kott: anaŋaja
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: زیرەک
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao: ສະຫລາດ, ສລາດ
 * Latin: sapiens, callidus, catus
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: protingas
 * Macedonian: умен
 * Malay:
 * Maori: ihumanea, manea
 * Mingrelian: ჭკვერი
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:, , , skarpsindig,
 * Persian:, ,
 * Polish:, zmyślny, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: tapaidh, glic
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: паметан
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese: හපන්, දක්ෂ
 * Slovak: chytrý
 * Slovene: pameten
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: mudry
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik: оқил, боақл, ҳушманд
 * Tatar: акыллы
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, , ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian: розу́мний
 * Urdu: ہوشیار
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: (聰明)
 * Walloon:, , ,
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: קלוג


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Italian:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:, , , dahiyane
 * Ukrainian: винахі́дливий


 * German: schamanisch, zauberkundig
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: మంత్రజాలం


 * Hebrew: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Romanian:
 * Swedish:

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1) clever