Synonyms of streetwise

streetwise

adjective

as in street-smart

Related Words

• street-smart
• shrewd
• hardheaded
• clear-eyed
• cynical
• wary
• clear-sighted
• sophisticated
• skeptical
• mistrustful
• suspicious
• critical

Dissimilar Words

• naive
• easy
• gullible
• susceptible
• trusting
• wide-eyed
• unwary
• exploitable
• credulous
• unsuspecting
• trustful
• uncritical
• unsuspicious
• genuine
• unsophisticated
• dewy-eyed
• guileless
• simple
• innocent
• unworldly
• artless
• overcredulous

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of streetwise

Those exchanges gave Gout permission to pepper the screenplay with personal details and sharpen the dialogue of the Latino characters with streetwise Mexican modismos. — Sergio Burstein, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2021

The quintessential scene pits Levee’s streetwise blasphemy against the religious Cutler (Colman Domingo). — Armond White, National Review, 1 Jan. 2021

The newspaperman and author specialized in streetwise tales of New York City. — oregonlive, 28 Dec. 2020

Our conscious experience is assembled on the fly as our brains respond to constantly changing inputs, calculate potential courses of action, and execute responses like a streetwise kid. — Michael S Gazzaniga, Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2012