Definition of Clever

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Clever

Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert.

Showing skill or adroitness in the doer or former; as, a clever speech; a clever trick.

Having fitness, propriety, or suitableness.

Well-shaped; handsome.

Good-natured; obliging.

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Clever Quotations

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
Winston Churchill

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis

Too clever is dumb.
Ogden Nash

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
W. C. Fields

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde

Clever tyrants are never punished.
Voltaire

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
Jane Austen

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner

A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
George Bernard Shaw

Clever Translations

clever in Afrikaans is slim, kunstig
clever in Dutch is bedreven, behendig, handig, bekwaam
clever in Finnish is viekas, taitava
clever in German is geschickt, sinnreich
clever in Italian is lesto, sveglio, esperto, saggio, furbo, savio
clever in Latin is sollers, callidus
clever in Norwegian is flink, dyktig
clever in Portuguese is inteligente
clever in Spanish is sabio, cauto, despejado, acertado, desgarrado
clever in Swedish is duktig, klok, slug, skicklig

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