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clever 音标拼音: [kl'ɛvɚ] a. 聪明,伶俐;机敏的,精巧的 聪明,伶俐;机敏的,精巧的 clever adj 1: showing self- interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; " a cagey lawyer"; " too clever to be sound" [ synonym: { cagey}, { cagy}, { canny}, { clever}] 2: mentally quick and resourceful; " an apt pupil"; " you are a clever man... you reason well and your wit is bold"- Bram Stoker [ synonym: { apt}, { clever}] 3: showing inventiveness and skill; " a clever gadget"; " the cunning maneuvers leading to his success"; " an ingenious solution to the problem" [ synonym: { clever}, { cunning}, { ingenious}] Clever \ Clev" er\, a. [ Origin uncertain. Cf. OE. cliver eager, AS. clyfer ( in comp.) cloven; or clifer a claw, perh. connected with E. cleave to divide, split, the meaning of E. clever perh. coming from the idea of grasping, seizing ( with the mind).] 1. Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert. [ 1913 Webster] Though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. -- C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Showing skill or adroitness in the doer or former; as, a clever speech; a clever trick. -- Byron. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Having fitness, propriety, or suitableness. [ 1913 Webster] ' T would sound more clever To me and to my heirs forever. -- Swift. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Well- shaped; handsome. " The girl was a tight, clever wench as any was." -- Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster] 5. Good- natured; obliging. [ U. S.] Syn: See { Smart}. [ 1913 Webster] 194 Moby Thesaurus words for " clever": Attic, Daedalian, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, able, acute, adept, adroit, agile, alert, all- around, amusing, apt, arch, artful, artistic, astute, authoritative, biting, brainy, bravura, bright, brilliant, cagey, canny, capable, clean, competent, coordinated, coruscating, crack, crackerjack, crafty, creative, cunning, cute, daedal, dazzling, deceitful, deep, deep- laid, deft, designing, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, discerning, docile, droll, educable, entertaining, excellent, expert, facetious, facile, fanciful, fancy, feline, formable, foxy, funny, gifted, good, goodish, graceful, guileful, handy, humorous, humorsome, imaginative, impressionable, ingenious, insidious, instructable, intelligent, inventive, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joky, joshing, keen, keen- witted, knowing, laughable, magisterial, malleable, many- sided, masterful, masterly, moldable, mordant, motivated, neat, neat- handed, nimble, nimble- witted, no dumbbell, no mean, not born yesterday, original, pawky, perceptive, piquant, plastic, pleasing, pliable, pointed, politic, pretty, professional, proficient, prompt, pungent, qualified, quick, quick- thinking, quick- witted, quite some, racy, rapier- like, ready, receptive, resourceful, ripe for instruction, risible, sagacious, sage, salt, salty, scheming, schoolable, scintillating, serpentine, sharp, sharp- witted, shifty, shrewd, skilled, skillful, slick, slim, slippery, sly, smart, smooth, snaky, sneaky, some, sophistical, sparkling, sprightly, statesmanlike, stealthy, steel- trap, strategic, stylish, subtile, subtle, supple, susceptible, tactful, tactical, talented, teachable, the compleat, the complete, thirsty for knowledge, trainable, trickish, tricksy, tricky, versatile, virtuoso, vulpine, wary, well- considered, well- contrived, well- designed, well- done, well- invented, well- laid, well- planned, well- reasoned, well- thought- out, well- weighed, whimsical, wicked, willing, wily, wise, witty, workmanlike
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