CUNNING vs CLEVER: NOUN
- The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful.
- Drafty artfulness (especially in deception)
- Shrewdness in deception
- Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- Skill in deception; guile.
- A variant of cony.
- The river-lamprey.
- Knowledge; learning; special knowledge: sometimes implying occult or magical knowledge.
- Practical knowledge or experience; skill; dexterity.
- Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skilful deceit.
- Disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice.
- The natural wit or instincts of an animal: as, the cunning of the fox or hare.
- The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft.
- Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.
- Skill or adeptness in execution or performance; dexterity.
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CUNNING vs CLEVER: ADJECTIVE
- Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious.
- Pretty or pleasing.
- Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
- Attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness
- Cute, appealing.
- Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful.
- Knowing; skillful; dexterous.
- Delicately pleasing; pretty or cute.
- Executed with or exhibiting ingenuity.
- Marked by or given to artful subtlety and deceptiveness.
- Marked by skill in deception
- Showing inventiveness and skill
- Skillful, artful.
- Mentally quick and resourceful
- Showing inventiveness and skill
- Possessing magical abilities.
- Showing inventiveness or originality; witty.
- Smart, intelligent or witty; mentally quick or sharp.
- Resourceful, sometimes to the point of cunning.
- Nimble with hands or body; skillful; adept.
- Well-shaped; handsome.
- Having fitness, propriety, or suitableness.
- Showing skill or adroitness in the doer or former.
- Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert.
- Good-natured; amiable.
- Easily managed; docile.
- Skillful (or showing skill) in adapting means to ends
- Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others
- Mentally quick and original; bright.
- Skilled at accomplishing things, especially with the hands.
- Good-natured; obliging.
- Witty; amusing.
- Exhibiting ingenuity or imagination; creative or artful.
- Crafty; cunning.
- Characterized by cunning or shrewdness.
CUNNING vs CLEVER: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Synonyms Cunning, Artful, Sly, Subtle, Shrewd, Tricky, Adroit, Wily, Crafty, Intriguing, sharp, foxy. All these words suggest something underhand or deceptive. Cunning, literally knowing, and especially knowing how, now implies a disposition to compass one's ends by concealment; hence we speak of a fox-like cunning. Artful indicates greater ingenuity and ability, the latter, however, being of a low kind. Sly is the same as cunning, except that it is more vulgar and implies less ability. (“A col-fox, ful of sleigh iniquité.” Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, l. 395.) (“Envy works in a sly, imperceptible manner.” Watts.) Subtle implies concealment, like cunning, but also a marked ability and the power to work out one's plans without being suspected; hence, while cunning is applicable to brutes, subtle is too high a word for that, except by figurative use. The rabbit is cunning enough to hide from the dog; Mephistopheles is subtle. (For the favorable meanings of subtle, see astute. For the good senses of shrewd, see acute.) In its unfavorable aspects shrewd implies a penetration and judgment that are somewhat narrow and worldly-wise, too much so to deserve the name of sagacity or wisdom. (See astute.) Tricky is especially a word of action; it expresses the character and conduct of one who gets the confidence of others only to abuse it by acts of selfishness, especially cheating. Adroit, in a bad sense, expresses a ready and skilful use of trickery, or facility in performing and escaping detection of reprehensihle acts. (See adroit.) Wily is appropriate where a person is viewed as an opponent in real or figurative warfare, against whom wiles or stratagems are employed: a wily adversary is one who is full of such devices; a wily politician is one who is notably given to advancing party interests by leading the opposite side to commit blunders, etc. A crafty man has less ability than a subtle man, and works more by deception or knavery than the shrewd man; he is more active than the cunning man, and more steadily active than the sly man; he is on the moral level of the trickish man. Intriguing is applied where the plots are secret arrangements made with others, perhaps against a third party, and especially of a complicated character.
- Curiously or quaintly attractive; subtly interesting; piquant: commonly used of something small or young: as, the cunning ways of a child or a pet animal.
- Knowing; having knowledge; learned; having or concerned with special or strange knowledge, and hence sometimes with an implication of magical or supernatural knowledge. See cunning-man, cunning-woman.
- Having knowledge acquired by experience or practice; having technical knowledge and manual skill; skilful; dexterous.
- Exhibiting or wrought with ingenuity; skilful; curious; ingenious.
- Characterized by or exercising crafty ingenuity; artfully subtle or shrewd; knowing in guile; guileful; tricky.
- Marked by crafty ingenuity; showing shrewdness or guile; expressive of subtlety: as, a cunning deception; cunning looks.
- A variant of claver.
- Possessing skill or address; having special ability of any kind, especially such as involves quickness of intellect or mechanical dexterity; adroit. It now commonly implies the possession of ability which, though noteworthy, does not amount to genius, nor even to a high degree of talent.
- Synonyms Adroit, Dexterous, Expert, etc. (see adroit); ready, quick, ingenious, neat-handed, knowing, sharp, bright.
- Agreeable; pleasant; comfortable; nice: as, “these clever apartments,”
- Good-natured; obliging; complaisant; possessing an agreeable mind or disposition.
- Well shaped; active-looking; handsome.
- Indicative of or exhibiting cleverness: as, a clever speech; a clever trick.
CUNNING vs CLEVER: RELATED WORDS
- Tricksy, Knavish, Artful, Foxy, Ingenious, Slyness, Guileful, Adroit, Craftiness, Wiliness, Sly, Guile, Clever, Crafty, Wily
- Brilliant, Sly, Skilful, Inventive, Crafty, Cagy, Apt, Cagey, Intelligent, Adroit, Smart, Artful, Cunning, Canny, Ingenious
CUNNING vs CLEVER: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Tricky, Slick, Tricksy, Knavish, Artful, Foxy, Ingenious, Slyness, Guileful, Adroit, Sly, Guile, Clever, Crafty, Wily
- Brilliant, Sly, Skilful, Inventive, Crafty, Cagy, Apt, Cagey, Intelligent, Adroit, Smart, Artful, Cunning, Canny, Ingenious
CUNNING vs CLEVER: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- They are vile beyond reproach and extremely cunning.
- SAHUAGIN BLADEMASTER A cunning veteran of countless campaigns.
- Superior to a mere cunning, lazy enlisted man.
- Cunning Stratagems to Reduce Dramatically the Egregious Misappropriation.
- This cunning little critter is a brood parasite.
- One cunning person is a match for another.
- By putting on the cunning of a carper.
- Cunning and Strength also match up to events.
- You may oppose force to force, and cunning to cunning; but if the word of the Lord be against you, what power have you?
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- The potential for the abuse of power exists in all relationships: between boss and worker, between clever and not so clever.
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- Cleverer, more clever, cleverest, and most clever are all correct.
CUNNING vs CLEVER: QUESTIONS
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