shrewd
Adjective Satellite
- marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
- "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow"
- used of persons
Adj
- Showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters.
- Artful, tricky or cunning.
- streetwise, street-smart.
- Knowledgeable, intelligent, keen.
- Nigh accurate.
- Severe, intense, hard.
- Sharp, snithy, piercing.
- Bad, evil, threatening.
- Portending, boding.
- Noxious, scatheful, mischievous.
- Abusive, shrewish.
- Scolding, satirical, sharp.
Adjective
- Having sharp powers of judgment; astute.
Examples
- a shrewd blow, or assault
- a shrewd guess
- A SHREWD player can spot opportunities for double-letter scores from across the board.
- a shrewd wind
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English schrewed (“depraved; wicked”, literally “accursed”), from schrewen (“to curse; beshrew”), from schrewe, schrowe, screwe (“evil or wicked person/thing”), from Old English sċrēawa (“wicked person”, literally “biter”). Equivalent to shrew + -ed. More at shrew.
The sense of "cunning" developed in early 16ᵗʰ c., gradually gaining a positive connotation by 17ᵗʰ c.
Synonyms
astute, calculating, calculative, conniving, scheming, sharp
Scrabble Score: 13
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shrewd: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary