🧩 clever

Looks & Qualities · chosen synonyms, sense by sense

adjectivequick to understand, learn or invent

smartintelligentbrightsharpingeniousgiftedapt

Smart is social speed, bright is school speed, ingenious is the tinkerer. Shrewd is clever about deals.

adjectivedone with skill (a clever trick)

skilfuladroitdeftcraftyartful

Crafty and artful lean toward deception; deft is the hands, adroit is the fingers of the mind.

The other end: foolishdull

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The rings above were chosen by hand for tukuk.org, sense by sense, and checked against usage rather than a synonym database dump. The dictionary tool can list WordNet’s full synonym sets for any of 200,000 words; this shelf keeps the forty words where choosing is genuinely hard and says how.