Shrewd

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Characterized by keen awareness, sharp intelligence, and often a sense of the practical.
  • adj. Disposed to artful and cunning practices; tricky.
  • adj. Sharp; penetrating: a shrewd wind.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters
  • adj. artful, tricky or cunning
  • adj. streetwise
  • adj. knowledgeable
  • adj. Scolding, satirical, sharp.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Inclining to shrew; disposing to curse or scold; hence, vicious; malicious; evil; wicked; mischievous; vexatious; rough; unfair; shrewish.
  • adj. Artful; wily; cunning; arch.
  • adj. Able or clever in practical affairs; sharp in business; astute; sharp-witted; sagacious; keen
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Evil; accursed; malignant; wicked.
  • Having a curst temper; scolding; vixenish; shrewish.
  • Annoying; mischievous; vexatious; troublesome; malicious.
  • Sharp: keen; biting; harsh.
  • Sly; canning; artful; spiteful.
  • Astute; sagacious; discriminating; discerning; smart; sharp: as, a shrewd man of the world.
  • Indicating shrewdness; due to shrewdness; involving or displaying sagacity or astuteness: as, a shrewd remark; a shrewd face.
  • Synonyms Artful, Sly, etc., (see cunning), wily, subtle.
  • Acute, Keen, etc. (see acute), discerning, penetrating, politic, ingenious.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. used of persons
  • adj. marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
  • Equivalent
    hard    smart   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    shrewdness    shrewdly   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    critical    astute    sagacious    discerning    artful    keen    penetrating    acute    subtle    malicious   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Abood    Jude    Likud    Mahmood    Mahmoud    Rhude    abood    accrued    allude    ballyhooed   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    intelligent    keen    cautious    astute    able    sagacious    witty    ambitious    smart    resourceful