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savvynoun knowledge gained by actually doing or living through somethingshe's an excellent scholar of political science, but lacks the kind of savvy needed to run for public office chops, experience, expertise, know-how, moxie, proficiency, skills backgroundcommand, masteryacquaintance, conversance, familiarity, intimacy inexperience ignorance, unawareness, unfamiliarity savvyadjectivehaving or showing a practical cleverness or judgmenta particularly savvy investor, he was among the first to see the potential in tech stocks astute, canny, clear-eyed, clear-sighted, hard-boiled, hardheaded, heady, knowing, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd, smart artful, cagey(also cagy), crafty, cunning, devious, dodgy(chiefly British), foxy, guileful, pawky(chiefly British), slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wilydiscerning, insightful, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sage, sapient, wiseexperienced, veterandiscriminating, discriminativeagile, alert, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, intelligent, keen, nimble, quick, quick-witted, sharp-eyed, sharp-sightedapt, ingenious, resourcefulcalculating, scheming unknowing artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, naive(or naïve)exploitable, gullible(also gullable)unperceptive, unwisedense, dull, obtuseairheaded, birdbrained, brain-dead, brainless, dim-witted, dopey(also dopy), dumb, empty-headed, feebleminded, gormless(chiefly British), half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain(or lamebrained), lunkheaded, simple, slow, slow-witted, softheaded, stupid, thickheaded, thick-witted, unintelligent, weak-mindedfoolish, idiotic(also idiotical), imbecile(or imbecilic), moronic, silly, thoughtless, witlessignorant, uninformed savvyverbto have a clear idea ofthe man growled, "Don't ever date my daughter again—you savvy?" appreciate, apprehend, assimilate, behold, catch, catch on (to), cognize, compass, comprehend, conceive, cotton (to or on to), decipher, decode, dig, discern, get, grasp, grok, intuit, know, make, make out, perceive, recognize, register, see, seize, sense, tumble (to), twig, understand absorb, digest, take inrealizefathom, penetrate, pierce pick up on miss misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret, misperceive, misread, mistake, misunderstand in 1686 |