He is shrewd and calculating.
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Shrewd
//ʃɹuːd//
Synonyms for "shrewd" (112 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (23)
Strong matches (33)
Adjective(1 words)
Related words (56)
Related word relations
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Synonyms
2 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
9 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
138 translations across 39 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- حَاذِق adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- نَاصِح adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- نَبِيه adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
Belarusian
2 entries- практычны adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- разважлівы adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
Bulgarian
3 entries- ловък adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- отракан adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- хитър adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
Catalan
3 entries- astut adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- astut adj (streetwise)
- perspicaç adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 狡猾 adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- 精明 adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
Czech
4 entries- bystrý adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- chytrý adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- mazaný adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- prohnaný adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
Danish
4 entries- fiffig adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- klog adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- listig adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- snu adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
Dutch
3 entries- listig adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- schrander adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- sluw adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
Esperanto
1 entries- sagaca adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
Finnish
4 entries- fiksu adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- katuviisas adj (streetwise)
- kekseliäs adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- kätevä adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
French
4 entries- avisé adj (streetwise)
- futé adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- futé adj (streetwise)
- habile adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
Galician
3 entries- astuto adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- perspicaz adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- pillabán adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
Georgian
1 entries- მკვეთრი adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
German
4 entries- clever adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- gerissen adj (streetwise)
- gewieft adj (streetwise)
- gewitzt adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
Hindi
1 entries- कुशाग्र adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
Hungarian
4 entries- agyafúrt adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- cseles adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- dörzsölt adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- furfangos adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
Indonesian
3 entries- lihai adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- lihai adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- lihai adj (streetwise)
Irish
1 entries- glic adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
Italian
4 entries- astuto adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- perspicace adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- sagace adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- scaltro adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
Japanese
4 entries- 抜け目のない adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- 狡猾な adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- 賢い adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- 賢明な adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
Latin
3 entries- callidus adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- callidus adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- versūtus adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
Macedonian
4 entries- и́тар adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- о́тракан adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- остро́умен adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- сна́одлив adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
Malay
1 entries- licik adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
Middle English
2 entries- sleighte adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- sly adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
Māori
3 entries- mūrere adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- rauhanga adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- rauhanga adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
Norwegian
1 entries- skarpsindig adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
Occitan
3 entries- astuciós adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- enganaire adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- fin adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
Persian
2 entries- رند adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- ناقلا adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- beschläpen adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
Polish
2 entries- chytry adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- cwany adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
Portuguese
3 entries- perspicaz adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- sagaz adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- sagaz adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
Russian
4 entries- зна́ющий adj (streetwise)
- нахо́дчивый adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- практи́чный adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- проница́тельный adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
Sanskrit
1 entries- चतुर adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- glic adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- seòlta adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- seòlta adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
Spanish
3 entries- astuto adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- astuto adj (streetwise)
- perspicaz adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
Swedish
4 entries- fiffig adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- finurlig adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- klok adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- listig adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
Thai
4 entries- ฉลาดแกมโกง adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- มีไหวพริบ adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- หลักแหลม adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
- หัวหมอ adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
Uyghur
1 entries- زىرەك adj (showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters)
Welsh
3 entries- craff adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- cyfrwys adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
- hirben adj (artful, tricky or cunning)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
He may be a poor talker and far from shrewd, but I like him all the better for that.
Source: tatoeba (296271)
They are shrewd in trade.
Source: tatoeba (306864)
I have a pretty shrewd idea that this room contains the answer to the whole mystery.
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