Clever | Mean of clever in English Dictionary

/ˈklɛvɚ/

• intelligent and able to learn things quickly
1. A few clever [=smart, bright] students have started a business recycling old computers.
2. Some cats are clever enough to figure out how to operate doorknobs.
• showing intelligent thinking
1. a clever design/invention
2. That's the cleverest idea I've heard yet!
3. She found a clever hiding place for the letter.
4. Whose clever idea was it to leave the window open?
• funny in a way that shows intelligence
1. I enjoyed the play's clever [=witty] dialogue.

• talking in a rude way that is meant to show you are smart
1. Don't you start getting clever [=(US) fresh] with me! [=don't speak to me in a disrespectful way]
• good at doing things with your hands
1. Even as a little boy playing with blocks he was clever with his hands.
2. a clever machinist
• clever in a way that is annoying or that causes problems
1. an arrogant politician who is too clever by half
2. a complex computer program that is too clever by half