clever

Forms

1.Nimble with hands or body; dexterous; skillful; adept.
- My dad is quite clever with his hands, especially at carpentry.
2.Quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas; intelligent.
- Tom thinks that he's so clever.
- Tom is a very clever man.
3.Mentally quick and resourceful; skilled at achieving what one wants in a mentally agile and inventive way.
- With a clever lawyer, she could easily be acquitted.
4.Smart, intelligent, or witty; mentally quick or sharp.
- And so make life, death, and that vast forever / One grand, sweet song.

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From East Anglian dialectal English cliver (“expert at seizing”), from Middle English cliver (“tenacious”).