Synonyms of savvy

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noun

as in skills

knowledge gained by actually doing or living through something

she's an excellent scholar of political science, but lacks the kind of savvy needed to run for public office

Synonyms & Similar Words

• skills
• experience
• expertise
• proficiency
• know-how
• chops
• moxie
• background
• mastery
• acquaintance
• familiarity
• intimacy
• conversance
• command

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• inexperience
• ignorance
• unfamiliarity
• unawareness

savvy

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adjective

as in smart

having or showing a practical cleverness or judgment

a particularly savvy investor, he was among the first to see the potential in tech stocks

Synonyms & Similar Words

• smart
• astute
• shrewd
• wise
• sharp
• veteran
• experienced
• clever
• intelligent
• knowing
• brilliant
• hardheaded
• keen
• canny
• cunning
• heady
• quick
• slick
• sharp-witted
• clear-eyed
• bright
• wily
• clear-sighted
• crafty
• subtle
• hard-boiled
• artful
• insightful
• perceptive
• discerning
• sagacious
• tricky
• perspicacious
• sly
• cagey
• foxy
• resourceful
• devious
• guileful
• sage
• nimble
• brainy
• ingenious
• cagy
• sapient
• agile
• discriminating
• percipient
• dodgy
• pawky
• alert
• apt
• discriminative
• calculating
• quick-witted
• scheming
• sharp-eyed
• sharp-sighted

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• naive
• naïve
• ingenuous
• unknowing
• guileless
• gullible
• innocent
• artless
• unwise
• exploitable
• dumb
• unperceptive
• obtuse
• dense
• stupid
• simple
• slow
• foolish
• unintelligent
• dull
• ignorant
• dopey
• brain-dead
• thoughtless
• gullable
• idiotic
• feebleminded
• uninformed
• thickheaded
• silly
• brainless
• moronic
• weak-minded
• witless
• imbecile
• imbecilic
• dim-witted
• knuckleheaded
• gormless
• softheaded
• airheaded
• slow-witted
• empty-headed
• lamebrained
• lamebrain
• lunkheaded
• half-witted
• thick-witted
• idiotical
• dopy
• birdbrained

savvy

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verb

as in to know

to have a clear idea of

the man growled, "Don't ever date my daughter again—you savvy?"

Synonyms & Similar Words

• know
• understand
• appreciate
• decipher
• recognize
• comprehend
• grasp
• see
• sense
• discern
• realize
• get
• perceive
• make
• conceive
• apprehend
• assimilate
• intuit
• dig
• seize
• cotton (to or on to)
• tumble (to)
• compass
• make out
• behold
• catch on (to)
• decode
• catch
• register
• grok
• twig
• cognize
• pick up on
• fathom
• absorb
• digest
• take in
• penetrate
• pierce

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• miss
• mistake
• misunderstand
• misread
• misinterpret
• misconstrue
• misapprehend
• misperceive
• misconceive

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