clever

Definition

  • adjective: intelligent and able to learn things quickly
  • adjective: skillful or adroit in using the hands or body
  • often used in a joking or ironic way to describe a foolish idea, action, etc.
  • synonyms: nimble, smart, expert

Examples

  • Don't you start getting 'clever' [=('US') 'fresh'] with me! [=don't speak to me in a disrespectful way]

  • For someone who hasn't been 'feeling too clever' lately, he just played a great round of golf.

  • A few 'clever' [='smart, bright'] students have started a business recycling old computers.

Movie quotes

  • (..) It's that feeling of falling you get that jolts you awake. - Snaps you out of the dream. - We gonna feel a kick with this sedation? YUSUF: That's the clever part. I customised the sedative to leave inner-ear function unimpaired. That way, however deep the sleep, the sleeper still feels falling. (..)
    2010 Inception