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How to pronounce “clever”
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Pronunciation guide for clever
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of clever with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Michael Pawlyn: Using nature's genius in architecture 16 minutes
Now the really clever bit is what they did with the cardboard waste.
- Definition summary
- Nimble with hands or body; dexterous; skillful; adept.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce clever
Michael Pawlyn: Using nature's genius in architecture 16 minutes
Now the really clever bit is what they did with the cardboard waste.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “clever”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Nimble with hands or body; dexterous; skillful; adept.
- Quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas; intelligent.
- Mentally quick and resourceful; skilled at achieving what one wants in a mentally agile and inventive way.
- Smart, intelligent, or witty; mentally quick or sharp.
- (archaic) Sane; in one's right mind.
- (of objects or actions) Showing mental quickness and resourcefulness.
- (of objects or actions) Showing inventiveness or originality; witty.
- (UK, colloquial, chiefly in the negative) Fit and healthy; free from fatigue or illness.
- (US, dated) Good-natured; obliging.
- (anthropology, of an Aboriginal Australian) Possessing magical abilities.
- (obsolete) Fit; suitable; having propriety.
- (obsolete) Well-shaped; handsome.
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