Meanings (ES + gloss)
apañado • habilidoso • habiloso • hábil • listo • talentoso • ágil
Nimble with hands or body; dexterous; skillful; adept.
My dad is quite clever with his hands, especially at carpentry.
a. 1898, Francis James Child (collator), Child's Ballads, 198: "Bonny John Seton", The Highland men, they're clever men At handling sword and shield,
habiloso • listo • pillo • pícaro
Mentally quick and resourceful; skilled at achieving what one wants in a mentally agile and inventive way.
With a clever lawyer, she could easily be acquitted.
clever like a fox
aguzado • astuto • avispado • conceptuoso • inteligente • listo • pillo • piola • pícaro
Smart, intelligent, or witty; mentally quick or sharp.
And so make life, death, and that vast forever / One grand, sweet song.
Lord Macaulay has said of Bunyan: “though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds. One of…
ingenioso • original
Showing inventiveness or originality; witty.
I felt they expected me to say clever things, and I never could think of any till after the party was over.
Mr. Woodhouse was almost as much interested in the business as the girls, and tried very often to recollect something worth their putting in. "So many clever riddles as there used…
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