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单词 cleverness
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Definition of cleverness in English:

cleverness

noun ˈklɛvənəsˈklɛvərnəs
mass noun
  • The quality of being clever; intelligence or shrewdness.

    people marvelled at his cleverness
    the cleverness of her strategy
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Reinventing and inverting images of Irishness, Jordan associates him with intelligence, cleverness, and wit.
    • Merlin smiled inwardly at the cleverness and competence of his young student.
    • Your compilers seem to have confused cleverness with wisdom.
    • The failure of love punctuates much of the intellectual cleverness of Farrell's works.
    • However, her cleverness and talent for witty banter makes it so she never comes across as being oppressed.
    Synonyms
    intelligence, brilliance, genius, intellect
    precocity, precociousness, talent, ability, capability, competence, proficiency
    education, learnedness, erudition, bookishness, knowledgeableness, sagacity, wisdom
    informal braininess, brains
    North American informal smarts
    shrewdness, astuteness, sharp-wittedness, quick-wittedness, acuteness, acuity
    ingenuity, ingeniousness, resourcefulness, canniness, cunning, craftiness, artfulness, wiliness

Definition of cleverness in US English:

cleverness

nounˈklɛvərnəsˈklevərnəs
  • The quality of being clever; ingenuity or shrewdness.

    people marveled at his cleverness
    the cleverness of her strategy
    Example sentencesExamples
    • However, her cleverness and talent for witty banter makes it so she never comes across as being oppressed.
    • Merlin smiled inwardly at the cleverness and competence of his young student.
    • Your compilers seem to have confused cleverness with wisdom.
    • The failure of love punctuates much of the intellectual cleverness of Farrell's works.
    • Reinventing and inverting images of Irishness, Jordan associates him with intelligence, cleverness, and wit.
    Synonyms
    intelligence, brilliance, genius, intellect
    shrewdness, astuteness, sharp-wittedness, quick-wittedness, acuteness, acuity
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