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Quick to understand or learn

Cunningly resourceful

Wise in personal, professional or business dealings

Amusingly ingenious

Built or designed with a high level of creativity or knowledge

Skilled at doing or achieving something

Having or showing creativity or inventiveness

Having the characteristics of an epigram

Having or showing initiative and resourcefulness

Having a flippant demeanor that is not appreciated under the circumstances

Of the very best kind

Being strikingly neat and trim in style or appearance

Having much high-spirited energy and movement

Using or characterized by irony

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Adjective

Quick to understand or learn

hyperintelligent

quick on the uptake

quick off the mark

sharp as a tack

quick on the draw

not born yesterday

very intelligent

with great knowledge

not missing a trick

quick on the trigger

knowing how many beans make five

bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

having been around

superintelligent

showing great knowledge

full of insight

smart as a whip

with your wits about you

knows what's what

ear to the ground

thinking outside the box

smart as a tack

know how many beans make five

intellectualistic

intellectualist

having a good head on one's shoulders

having no flies on

out of the ordinary

on the qui vive

fast on the draw

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“He was a bright and clever child who displayed a level of intellect far surpassing that of his peers.”

Adjective

Cunningly resourceful

as sharp as a tack

dishonorable^US

dishonourable^UK

crazy like a fox

having fancy footwork

behind-the-scenes

hole-and-corner

treating with kid gloves

under the table

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“He concocted a clever financial scheme aimed at exploiting loopholes within the system.”

Adjective

Wise in personal, professional or business dealings

full of insight

well thought out

with great knowledge

showing great knowledge

well-thought-out

full of common sense

having all one's marbles

incontrovertible

standing to reason

holding together

in one's right mind

based on good sense

able to hold water

well researched

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“He was a clever businessman with incredible powers of persuasion.”

Adjective

Amusingly ingenious

quick on the draw

quick on the uptake

tongue-in-cheek

invigorating^US

envigorating^UK

pulling one's leg

too funny for words

tongue in cheek

good-humoured^UK

good-humored^US

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“He replied curtly to the insults leveled at him with a flurry of clever retorts.”

Adjective

Built or designed with a high level of creativity or knowledge

forward-looking

forward-thinking

highly developed

state-of-the-art

well-thought-out

carefully planned

transformational

up to the minute

highly-developed

state of the art

ground-breaking

breaking new ground

up-to-the-minute

newly discovered

recently developed

ahead of the times

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“The cellphone has certainly been a very clever invention.”

Adjective

Skilled at doing or achieving something

nimble-fingered

out of this world

extraordinarily skilled

exceptionally skilled

immensely skilled

highly qualified

quick on the trigger

quick on the uptake

exceptionally good

having know-how

adept physically

having good hands

supremely skilled

having the know-how

not born yesterday

having a knack for

know one's stuff

know the answers

know one's business

know ins and outs

of the first water

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

know one's onions

know backwards and forwards

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“The street performer was very clever at juggling bowling pins.”

Adjective

Having or showing creativity or inventiveness

breaking ground

out of the ordinary

breaking new ground

ground-breaking

individualistic

head-in-the-clouds

out of touch with reality

with your head in the clouds

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Adjective

Having the characteristics of an epigram

short and sweet

in well-chosen words

in a few well-chosen words

short-and-sweet

down to brass tacks

cut to the bone

straightforward

uncommunicative

short and to the point

well structured

make a long story short

incomprehensible

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Adjective

Having or showing initiative and resourcefulness

entrepreneurial

coming on strong

forward-thinking

forward-looking

as game as Ned Kelly

action-oriented

state-of-the-art

on the up and up

likely to succeed

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Having a flippant demeanor that is not appreciated under the circumstances

tongue-in-cheek

mincingly clever

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Of the very best kind

top-of-the-line

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Adjective

Being strikingly neat and trim in style or appearance

well-turned-out

well turned out

dressed to kill

dressed to the nines

as if one had just stepped out of a bandbox

well turned-out

smartly dressed

fashionably dressed

well-turned out

apple-pie order

as if you had just stepped out of a bandbox

dressed up to the nines

up-to-the-minute

dressed to the teeth

up to the minute

in high feather

bang up to date

dressed to nines

of smart appearance

shipshape and Bristol fashion

well looked-after

well maintained

in apple-pie order

as neat as a new pin

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Adjective

Having much high-spirited energy and movement

bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

full of vim and vigour

as merry as a grig

as lively as a grig

full of the joys of spring

in high spirits

alive and kicking

in good spirits

bright and breezy

full of get-up-and-go

without a care in the world

highly seasoned

full of the joy of living

hale and hearty

full of vim and vigor

feeling one's oats

full of joie de vivre

invigorating^US

pleasure-seeking

envigorating^UK

as happy as a clam

as happy as a sandboy

on top of the world

industrial-strength

highly flavoured

quick on the draw

tongue-in-cheek

quick on the uptake

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Adjective

Using or characterized by irony

tongue-in-cheek

uncomplimentary

quietly humorous

with tongue in cheek

evil-intentioned

rubbing the wrong way

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