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Cleverness

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Noun

1. cleverness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventiveness

the power of creative imagination

2. brightness, cleverness, smartness

intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty

3. cleverness, ingeniousness, ingenuity

the property of being ingenious

Example Sentences:
'a plot of great ingenuity'
'the cleverness of its design'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Cleverness

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adjective
1. 
displaying sharp intelligence or mental alertness
2. 
adroit or dexterous, esp with the hands
3. 
smart in a superficial way
4. British informal
sly; cunning
5. (predicative; used with a negative) dialect
healthy; fit

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Cleverness

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adjective
1. 
skillful in doing something; adroit; dexterous
2. 
quick in thinking or learning; intelligent, ingenious, quick-witted, witty, facile, etc.
3. 
showing ingenuity or quick, sometimes superficial, intelligence
a clever book
4.  Dialectal
a. 
amiable; good-natured
b. 
handsome, convenient, nice, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Cleverness

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adj. clev·er·er, clev·er·est
1.
a. Mentally quick and original; bright: a clever student.
b. Skilled at accomplishing things, especially with the hands: a clever carpenter.
c. Crafty; cunning: "a hard-working kid who rose from poverty, only to be duped by rich, clever bankers" (Jeff Goodell).
2.
a. Exhibiting ingenuity or imagination; creative or artful: a clever experiment.
b. Witty; amusing: an evening of clever repartee.
c. Characterized by cunning or shrewdness: clever manipulation of public opinion.
3. New England Easily managed; docile: "Oxen must be pretty clever to be bossed around the way they are" (Dialect Notes).
4. Chiefly Southern US Good-natured; amiable.

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