cleverness
Variant of clever
clever (klev′ər)
adjective
- skillful in doing something; adroit; dexterous
- quick in thinking or learning; intelligent, ingenious, quick-witted, witty, facile, etc.
- showing ingenuity or quick, sometimes superficial, intelligence a clever book
- Dialectal
- amiable; good-natured
- handsome, convenient, nice, etc.
Etymology: ME cliver, prob. < EFris klüfer or Norw dial klöver, ready, skillful; ? infl. by OE clifer, claw, hand, in the sense, “adroit with the hand”: for the latter sense development, see adroit, dexterous
Related Forms:
- cleverly clev′·erly adverb
- cleverness clev′·er·ness noun
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The obstinancy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinancy of follyand inanity.
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