clever
adjective
[ ˈklɛvə ]
• quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas; intelligent.
• "she was an extremely clever and studious young woman"
Similar:
intelligent,
bright,
smart,
brilliant,
talented,
gifted,
precocious,
capable,
able,
competent,
apt,
proficient,
educated,
learned,
erudite,
academic,
bookish,
knowledgeable,
wise,
sagacious,
brainy,
genius,
• healthy or well.
• "I was up and about by this time though still not too clever"
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘quick to catch hold’, only recorded in this period): perhaps of Dutch or Low German origin, and related to cleave2. In the late 16th century the term came to mean (probably through dialect use) ‘manually skilful’; the sense ‘possessing mental agility’ dates from the early 18th century.
