English Dictionary

clever

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈklɛvɚ/

形容詞

事物・事柄 オーストラリア先住民 廃用 アメリカ英語 古風 イギリス英語 口語

Nimble with hands or body; skillful; adept. / Quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas; intelligent. / Mentally quick and resourceful.

日本語の意味

手足が器用で巧みな動きを見せる / 才覚があり、技術に優れている / 理解力が速く、アイデアをうまく活用できる

The clever seamstress stitched the torn coat in minutes.

器用な仕立て屋は裂けたコートを数分で縫い直した。

意味（1）

Nimble with hands or body; skillful; adept.

The Highland men, they're clever men At handling sword and shield,

意味（2）

Quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas; intelligent.

意味（3）

Mentally quick and resourceful.

clever like a fox

意味（4）

Smart, intelligent, or witty; mentally quick or sharp.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make life, death, and that vast forever / One grand, sweet song.

意味（5）

(of objects or actions) Showing inventiveness or originality; witty.

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 to be when he was young--he wondered he could not remember them! but he hoped he should in time. And it always ended in Kitty, a fair but frozen maid.

意味（6）

(anthropology, of an Aboriginal Australian) Possessing magical abilities.

When a clever man is out hunting and comes across the tracks of, say, a kangaroo, he follows them along and talks to the footprints all the time for the purpose of injecting magic into the animal which made them.

意味（7）

(obsolete) Fit; suitable; having propriety.

I can't but think 'twould sound more clever, To me and to my heirs forever.

意味（8）

(obsolete) Well-shaped; handsome.

The girl was a tight, clever wench as any was.

意味（9）

(US, dated) Good-natured; obliging.

意味（10）

(UK, colloquial) Fit and healthy; free from fatigue or illness.

But at that moment I knew it was all over for me, I had never thought that this day would come, but it had and I was not feeling too clever. In fact I had to escape to a nearby toilet to be sick.

cleverer （ comparative ）

more clever （ comparative ）

cleverest （ superlative ）

most clever （ superlative ）