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shrewdadjective having or showing a practical cleverness or judgmenta shrewd used car dealer who knew how to make the best possible deal shrewd investments that paid off big astute, canny, clear-eyed, clear-sighted, hard-boiled, hardheaded, heady, knowing, savvy, sharp, sharp-witted, 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 causing intense discomfort to one's skinshe pulled her coat tighter against the shrewd breeze whipping down the alley biting, bitter, cutting, keen, penetrating, piercing, raw, sharp, smarting, stinging brisk, invigorating, nippy, snappyneedlelike, prickly, tinglingcaustic, corrosive balmy, gentle, mild, soothing clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive meansa shrewd operator in the real estate game, she made every buyer think they were getting the deal of the century artful, beguiling, cagey(also cagy), crafty, cunning, cute, designing, devious, dodgy(chiefly British), foxy, guileful, scheming, slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wily astute, facile, glib, sharpcrooked, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, fraudulent, insinuating, knavish, Machiavellian, oblique, serpentine, shady, shifty, slippery, sneaky, treacherous, underhand, underhanded, unscrupulousbackhanded, double-dealing, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, smooth-tongued, two-facedcircuitous, circular, roundaboutclandestine, concealed, covert, furtive, hugger-mugger, secret, stealthy, surreptitious, undercovercalculating, plotting artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, undesigning obvious, open, patent, plain, public, unconcealedaboveboard, candid, direct, forthright, frank, honest, natural, outspoken, plainspoken, real, simple, sincere, straightforward, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious, unvarnishedchildlike, impressionable, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldlyunforced, unstudiedtrustful, trusting shrewd, sagacious, perspicacious, astute mean acute in perception and sound in judgment.shrewd stresses practical, hardheaded cleverness and judgment.a shrewd judge of character sagacious suggests wisdom, penetration, and farsightedness.sagacious investors got in on the ground floor perspicacious implies unusual power to see through and understand what is puzzling or hidden.a perspicacious counselor saw through the child's facade astute suggests shrewdness, perspicacity, and diplomatic skill.an astute player of party politics in the 13th century |