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sharp
sharp
Synonyms and Antonyms of sharp
- Be careful, as that knife is sharp enough to slice off a finger.
- a sharp cheese
- wore a sharp suit to his first big job interview
- a television personality who's known as a sharp dresser
dolled up, dressy, elegant, formal, spiffed-up
à la mode (also a la mode), chic, fashionable, in, modish, stylish
disheveled (or dishevelled), frowsy (or frowzy), sloppy, slovenly, unkempt
- I got chapped lips from sailing all day in that sharp wind.
- sharp business practices that are being investigated by the state's consumer protection agency
- a sharp customer who wasn't about to be taken in by that smooth-tongued salesman
artful, cagey (also cagy), crafty, cunning, devious, foxy, guileful, slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wily
discerning, insightful, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sage, sapient, wise
agile, alert, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, intelligent, keen, nimble, quick, quick-witted, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted
artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, naive (or naïve)
exploitable, gullible (also gullable)
birdbrained, brain-dead, brainless, dim-witted, dopey (also dopy), dumb, empty-headed, feebleminded, half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), lunkheaded, simple, slow, slow-witted, softheaded, stupid, thickheaded, thick-witted, unintelligent, weak-minded
foolish, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic, silly, thoughtless, witless
- Any sharp student would have noticed the error immediately.
acute, astute, discerning, heady, insightful, knowing, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sapient, savvy, wise
cerebral, erudite, genial, highbrow, knowledgeable, learned, literate, scholarly, well-read
creative, inventive, judicious, prudent, sage, sane, sapient, sensible, sound, wise
ignorant, illiterate, lowbrow, nonintellectual, unacademic, uneducated, uninformed, unintellectual, untaught, unthinking
absurd, asinine, balmy, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, fool, half-baked, harebrained, insane, kooky (also kookie), loony (also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, tomfool, 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, half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), lunkheaded, mindless, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, senseless, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, stupid, thick, thickheaded, thick-witted, unintelligent, vacuous, weak-minded, witless
- an unnecessarily sharp retort to a perfectly civil question
brisk, cross, sharp-tongued, sour, sourish, spiky (also spikey), tartish
incisive, keen, poignant, trenchant
cynical, dry, ironic (also ironical), wry
facetious, flippant, tongue-in-cheek
acrimonious, bitter, resentful, vitriolic
harsh, rough, severe, stringent
abrupt, blunt, brusque (also brusk), concise, crisp, curt, gruff, pithy, snippety, snippy, succinct, terse
- You have sharp eyes!
- a spell of unusually sharp weather for this time of year
Synonym Discussion of sharp
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- sharp enough to spot a confidence game
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- a keen observer of the political scene
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- an acute sense of style
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