shrewd
English
/ʃɹuːd/
adj
Definitions
- Showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters.
- Artful, tricky or cunning.
- (informal) Streetwise.
- Knowledgeable, intelligent, keen.
- Nigh accurate.
- Severe, intense, hard.
- Sharp, snithy, piercing.
- (archaic) Bad, evil, threatening.
- (obsolete) Portending, boding.
- (archaic) Noxious, scatheful, mischievous.
- (obsolete) Abusive, shrewish.
- (archaic) Scolding, satirical, sharp.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English schrewed (depraved, accursed, wicked) inherited from Old English *scrēawa (biter, wicked person) suffix from English shrew.
Origin
English
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