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clever
Synonyms and Antonyms of clever
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showing a noteworthy use of the imagination and creativity especially in inventing
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having or showing quickness of mind
acute, astute, discerning, heady, insightful, knowing, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sapient, savvy, wise
cerebral, erudite, genial, highbrow, knowledgeable, learned, literate, scholarly, well-read
educated, informed, schooled, skilled, trained
creative, inventive, judicious, prudent, sage, sane, sapient, sensible, sound, wise
boobish, foolish, half-baked, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic, silly
ignorant, illiterate, lowbrow, nonintellectual, unacademic, uneducated, uninformed, unintellectual, untaught, unthinking
absurd, asinine, balmy, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, featherheaded, fool, half-baked, harebrained, insane, kooky (also kookie), loony (also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, tomfool, unwise, wacky (also whacky), zany
airheaded, birdbrained, boneheaded, brain-dead, brainless, bubbleheaded, chuckleheaded, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, gormless [chiefly British], half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), lunkheaded, mindless, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, senseless, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, stupid, thick, thickheaded, thick-witted, unbrilliant, unintelligent, unsmart, vacuous, weak-minded, witless
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skillful with the hands
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given to or marked by mature intelligent humor
cerebral, highbrow, highbrowed, intellectual
bantering, frivolous, jesting, joking, joshing, teasing
antic, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funny, hysterical, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous, riotous, risible, rollicking, screaming, sidesplitting, uproarious
amusing, diverting, entertaining
mischievous, playful, prankish
jocose, jocund, jolly, jovial, laughing, merry, mirthful, sunny
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having the skill and imagination to create new things
Synonym Discussion of clever
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- a person clever with horses
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- an adroit negotiator
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- a filmmaker cunning in his use of special effects
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- an ingenious software engineer
synonyms see in addition intelligent
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