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sharp
Synonyms and Antonyms of sharp
- be there at four oʼclock sharp
sharp
Synonyms and Antonyms of sharp
- be careful, as that knife is sharp enough to slice off a finger
- that cheese is so sharp that its rank aroma can practically clear a room
gingery, hot, peppery, piquant, spicy, tart, zesty, zingy
animating, energizing, exciting, galvanizing, invigorating, provocative
appetizing, delectable, delicious, palatable, toothsome
- wore a sharp suit to his first big job interview
dapper, dashing, dressy, kicky, natty, rakish, sassy, saucy, spiffy, spruce
chichi, classy, flossy, haute (also haut), nobby, posh, ritzy, soigné (or soignée), swank (or swanky)
elegant, graceful, handsome, majestic, refined, sophisticated, stately, tasteful, understated
doggish, doggy, flashy, gallant
ultrachic, ultracool, ultrahip, ultraposh, ultrasmart, ultrasophisticated
cheesy, tacky, unattractive, unbecoming
graceless, inelegant, tasteless, trashy, unhandsome
frowsy (or frowzy), sloppy, slovenly, unkempt, untidy
disheveled (or dishevelled), messy, mussy, rumpled, wrinkled
- a television personality whoʼs 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 stateʼs consumer protection agency
bent [chiefly British], crooked, deceptive, dishonest, double-dealing, duplicitous, fast, fraudulent, guileful, rogue, shady, shifty, underhand, underhanded
- a sharp customer who wasnʼt about to be taken in by that smooth-tongued salesman
artful, cagey (also cagy), crafty, cunning, devious, dodgy [chiefly British], foxy, guileful, pawky [chiefly British], slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wily
discerning, insightful, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sage, sapient, wise
discriminating, discriminative
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)
airheaded, birdbrained, brain-dead, brainless, dim-witted, dopey (also dopy), dumb, empty-headed, feebleminded, gormless [chiefly British], 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
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
- 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
sharp
Synonyms and Antonyms of sharp
- the computer sharp that the rest of the staff turns to whenever their PCs act up
ace, adept, artist, authority, cognoscente, connoisseur, crackerjack (also crackajack), dab [chiefly British], dab hand [chiefly British], expert, fiend, geek, guru, hand, hotshot, maestro, master, maven (also mavin), meister, past master, proficient, scholar, shark, virtuoso, whiz, wizard
consultant, hired gun, specialist
addict, aficionado (also afficionado), buff, devotee, enthusiast, fan
all-rounder [British], jack-of-all-trades, Renaissance man
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