clever

clever
    adj 1: showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with
           others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound" [syn:
           {cagey}, {cagy}, {canny}, {clever}]
    2: mentally quick and resourceful; "an apt pupil"; "you are a
       clever man...you reason well and your wit is bold"-Bram
       Stoker [syn: {apt}, {clever}]
    3: showing inventiveness and skill; "a clever gadget"; "the
       cunning maneuvers leading to his success"; "an ingenious
       solution to the problem" [syn: {clever}, {cunning},
       {ingenious}]
    

Clever \Clev"er\, a. [Origin uncertain. Cf. OE. cliver eager,
   AS. clyfer (in comp.) cloven; or clifer a claw, perh.
   connected with E. cleave to divide, split, the meaning of E.
   clever perh. coming from the idea of grasping, seizing (with
   the mind).]
   1. Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity,
      talent, or adroitness; expert.
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            Though there were many clever men in England during
            the latter half of the seventeenth century, there
            were only two great creative minds.   --Macaulay.
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            Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
                                                  --C. Kingsley.
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   2. Showing skill or adroitness in the doer or former; as, a
      clever speech; a clever trick. --Byron.
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   3. Having fitness, propriety, or suitableness.
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            'T would sound more clever
            To me and to my heirs forever.        --Swift.
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   4. Well-shaped; handsome. "The girl was a tight, clever wench
      as any was." --Arbuthnot.
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   5. Good-natured; obliging. [U. S.]

   Syn: See {Smart}.
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Clever, MO (city, FIPS 14788)
  Location: 37.02980 N, 93.47112 W
  Population (1990): 580 (253 housing units)
  Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 65631
    

Clever, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
   Population (2000):    1010
   Housing Units (2000): 420
   Land area (2000):     0.638569 sq. miles (1.653887 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.638569 sq. miles (1.653887 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            14788
   Located within:       Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
   Location:             37.028804 N, 93.470067 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     65631
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Clever, MO
    Clever
    

194 Moby Thesaurus words for "clever":
      Attic, Daedalian, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, able, acute, adept,
      adroit, agile, alert, all-around, amusing, apt, arch, artful,
      artistic, astute, authoritative, biting, brainy, bravura, bright,
      brilliant, cagey, canny, capable, clean, competent, coordinated,
      coruscating, crack, crackerjack, crafty, creative, cunning, cute,
      daedal, dazzling, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, deft, designing,
      dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, discerning, docile, droll,
      educable, entertaining, excellent, expert, facetious, facile,
      fanciful, fancy, feline, formable, foxy, funny, gifted, good,
      goodish, graceful, guileful, handy, humorous, humorsome,
      imaginative, impressionable, ingenious, insidious, instructable,
      intelligent, inventive, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joky,
      joshing, keen, keen-witted, knowing, laughable, magisterial,
      malleable, many-sided, masterful, masterly, moldable, mordant,
      motivated, neat, neat-handed, nimble, nimble-witted, no dumbbell,
      no mean, not born yesterday, original, pawky, perceptive, piquant,
      plastic, pleasing, pliable, pointed, politic, pretty, professional,
      proficient, prompt, pungent, qualified, quick, quick-thinking,
      quick-witted, quite some, racy, rapier-like, ready, receptive,
      resourceful, ripe for instruction, risible, sagacious, sage, salt,
      salty, scheming, schoolable, scintillating, serpentine, sharp,
      sharp-witted, shifty, shrewd, skilled, skillful, slick, slim,
      slippery, sly, smart, smooth, snaky, sneaky, some, sophistical,
      sparkling, sprightly, statesmanlike, stealthy, steel-trap,
      strategic, stylish, subtile, subtle, supple, susceptible, tactful,
      tactical, talented, teachable, the compleat, the complete,
      thirsty for knowledge, trainable, trickish, tricksy, tricky,
      versatile, virtuoso, vulpine, wary, well-considered,
      well-contrived, well-designed, well-done, well-invented, well-laid,
      well-planned, well-reasoned, well-thought-out, well-weighed,
      whimsical, wicked, willing, wily, wise, witty, workmanlike