cleverness

«cleverness» in Mova's school dictionary: being clever: being quick to learn, understand and think… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (cleverness, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Cleverness is being clever: being quick to learn, understand and think of good ideas. tree →

2) Cleverness can also mean being tricky or cunning. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories cleverness often wins over strength: a small character uses cleverness to beat a giant. In school, cleverness is praised, but effort matters too. Phrases: through cleverness, show cleverness, the cleverness of the plan.

examples

• The mouse escaped from the cat through cleverness. tree →
• Everyone admired the cleverness of her idea. tree →
• His cleverness helped the team win the quiz. tree →
• Cleverness is useful, but kindness matters more. tree →
• The cleverness of the trick surprised us all. tree →
• In fairy tales, the youngest child often wins by cleverness. tree →
• And he sat and scratched his head, and thought about his own cleverness. tree →

note

Uncountable: no «a», no plural. Built from «clever» + «-ness». Close in meaning to «intelligence» and «wit»; «cunning» suggests tricking people.

In the corpora

• There is no single ladder of cleverness with humans at the top: each animal is clever in the ways its own life needs.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cleverness» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.