clever (adj.)
- able
- acute
- adept
- adroit
- agile
- alert
- all-around
- amusing
- apt
- arch
- artful
- artistic
- astute
- authoritative
- biting
- brainy
- bright
- brilliant
- cagey
- canny
- capable
- clean
- competent
- coordinated
- crack
- crafty
- creative
- cunning
- cute
- daedal
- dazzling
- deceitful
- deep
- deep-laid
- deft
- designing
- dexterous
- dextrous
- diplomatic
- discerning
- docile
- droll
- entertaining
- excellent
- expert
- facetious
- facile
- fanciful
- fancy
- feline
- formable
- foxy
- funny
- gifted
- good
- goodish
- graceful
- guileful
- handy
- humorous
- imaginative
- impressionable
- ingenious
- insidious
- intelligent
- inventive
- jesting
- jocose
- jocular
- joking
- keen
- knowing
- laughable
- magisterial
- malleable
- many-sided
- masterful
- masterly
- moldable
- mordant
- motivated
- neat
- nimble
- original
- pawky
- perceptive
- piquant
- plastic
- pleasing
- pliable
- pointed
- politic
- pretty
- professional
- proficient
- prompt
- pungent
- qualified
- quick
- quick-witted
- racy
- ready
- receptive
- resourceful
- risible
- sagacious
- sage
- salt
- salty
- scheming
- scintillating
- serpentine
- sharp
- shifty
- shrewd
- skilled
- skillful
- slick
- slim
- slippery
- sly
- smart
- smooth
- snaky
- sneaky
- some
- sophistical
- sparkling
- sprightly
- statesmanlike
- stealthy
- strategic
- stylish
- subtle
- supple
- susceptible
- tactful
- tactical
- talented
- teachable
- tricksy
- tricky
- versatile
- virtuoso
- vulpine
- wary
- well-done
- whimsical
- wicked
- willing
- wily
- wise
- witty
- workmanlike
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:
And so make life, death, and that vast forever
One grand sweet song.
He [Kippis] might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
