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{
"term": "clever",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "quick at learning and understanding things",
"labels": "(especially British English)(especially North American English)especially British English",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a clever child"
},
{
"text": "Clever girl!"
},
{
"text": "He's **too clever by half**, if you ask me *(= it annoys me or makes me suspicious)*."
},
{
"text": "They're not clever enough to find the code."
}
],
"synonyms": "intelligent",
"topics": ["Personal qualities"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "seem", "sound"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["at", "with"],
"phrases": ["too clever by half", "too clever for your own good"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "showing skill",
"sensetop": "clever at somethingclever at doing somethingclever with something",
"labels": "(especially British English)",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "He's always been clever at crosswords.",
"contextForm": "clever at something"
},
{
"text": "She's clever at getting what she wants.",
"contextForm": "clever at doing something"
},
{
"text": "He's clever with his hands.",
"contextForm": "clever with something"
},
{
"text": "I became quite clever at making tasty meals out of nothing."
},
{
"text": "I'm not very clever at maths."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "seem", "sound"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["at", "with"],
"phrases": ["too clever by half", "too clever for your own good"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "showing intelligence or skill, for example in the design of an object, in an idea or somebody’s actions",
"sensetop": "it is clever of somebody to do somethingit is clever to do somethingclever of somebody",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a clever trick"
},
{
"text": "What a clever idea!"
},
{
"text": "That wasn't very clever *(= what you just did wasn't sensible)*, was it?"
},
{
"text": "clever marketing"
},
{
"text": "Admitting her mistake may have been quite a clever move on her part."
},
{
"text": "It was clever of him to have spotted the mistake.",
"contextForm": "it is clever of somebody to do something"
},
{
"text": "How clever of you to work it out!"
},
{
"text": "'Young people think it's clever to do that sort of thing, and it isn't,' she said.",
"contextForm": "it is clever to do something"
},
{
"text": "Letting him think it was his idea was very clever of you.",
"contextForm": "clever of somebody"
},
{
"text": "That wasn't a very clever thing to do."
},
{
"text": "a simple yet fiendishly clever idea"
},
{
"text": "a clever little gadget"
},
{
"text": "The present owners have made clever use of the limited space in this room."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "quick with words in a way that annoys people or does not show respect",
"labels": "(British English, informal, disapproving)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Don't you get clever with me!"
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "seem", "sound"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["at", "with"],
"phrases": ["too clever by half", "too clever for your own good"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to act in a clever way to get what you want, sometimes tricking somebody",
"labels": "(British English, informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Suzie realized that she had to box clever. She had to let Adam think she trusted him."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈklevə(r)/",
"audio": "cl/clever/clever__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈklevər/",
"audio": "cl/clever/clever__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the sense ‘quick to catch hold’, only recorded in this period): perhaps of Dutch or Low German origin, and related to cleave ‘to stick to something’. In the late 16th cent. the term came to mean (probably through dialect use) ‘manually skilful’; the sense ‘possessing mental agility’ dates from the early 18th cent."
}