Clever

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Nimble with hands or body; dexterous; skillful; adept.

   “My dad is quite clever with his hands, especially at carpentry.”

2. sıfat Quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas; intelligent.
3. sıfat Mentally quick and resourceful; skilled at achieving what one wants in a mentally agile and inventive way.

   “clever like a fox”

4. sıfat Smart, intelligent, or witty; mentally quick or sharp.

   “And so make life, death, and that vast forever / One grand, sweet song.”

5. sıfat Sane; in one's right mind.

   “He was not clever, poor fellow, he did not know what questions to ask; he asked the same questions again and again. He continued to show his own troubled thoughts, and the vague dread in his mind, […]”

6. sıfat Showing mental quickness and resourcefulness.

   “This is a simple but clever trick to solve the problem.”

7. sıfat Showing inventiveness or originality; witty.

   “I felt they expected me to say clever things, and I never could think of any till after the party was over.”

8. sıfat Fit and healthy; free from fatigue or illness.

   “But at that moment I knew it was all over for me, I had never thought that this day would come, but it had and I was not feeling too clever. In fact I had to escape to a nearby toilet to be sick.”

9. sıfat Good-natured; obliging.
10. sıfat Possessing magical abilities.

    “When a clever man is out hunting and comes across the tracks of, say, a kangaroo, he follows them along and talks to the footprints all the time for the purpose of injecting magic into the animal which made them.”

11. sıfat Fit; suitable; having propriety.

    “18th c, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope (later lines), Imitation of Horace, 1852, Charles Knight (collator), Half-hours with the Best Authors, Volume 4, page 188, I can't but think 'twould sound more clever, To me and to my heirs forever.”

12. sıfat Well-shaped; handsome.

    “Tho' the Girl vvas a tight, clever VVench as any vvas, and thro' her pale Looks, you might diſcern Spirit and Vivacity, vvhich made her not indeed a perfect Beauty, but ſomething that vvas agreeable.”

13. özel isim A city in Missouri.