| 单词 | cleverness |
| 释义 | cleverness (once / 1676 pages) n Cleverness is the quality someone has when they're funny and smart or inventive. If you're wise and witty, your cleverness is likely to make school a breeze. It takes cleverness to solve a tricky logic problem, and it takes a slightly different kind of cleverness to tell a joke really well or come up with a funny response. When a person is clever, they're either very smart and quick-thinking, or they're witty. The meaning of cleverness has evolved over time, including meaning "attractiveness" and "agreeableness" in some dialects. WORD FAMILYcleverness: clevernesses+/clever: cleverer, cleverest, cleverly, cleverness, smartly/smartly: smartlys USAGE EXAMPLESMr. Singer finds moral behavior to be its own kind of cleverness, and certainly happy-making. New York Times(Dec 19, 2016) Of course, people were interested in her nine marriages but it was actually her wit and cleverness that kept the show on the road. The Guardian(Dec 19, 2016) Our Founding Fathers, for all their cleverness, were hardly soft-spoken. Washington Post(Nov 04, 2016) 1n intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty Syn|Hyper brightness, smartness intelligence the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience 2n the power of creative imagination Syn|Hypo|Hyper ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventiveness imagination, resource, resourcefulness the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems armory, armoury, inventorya collection of resources creative thinking, creativeness, creativity the ability to create 3n the property of being ingenious the cleverness of its design Syn|Hyper ingeniousness, ingenuity high quality, superiority the quality of being superior |
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