adj. (cleverer, cleverest)
1. skilful, talented; quick to understand and learn.
2 adroit, dextrous.
3 (of the doer or the thing done) ingenious, cunning.
Phrases and idioms:
clever Dick (or clogs etc.) colloq. a person who is or purports to be smart or knowing. not too clever Austral. colloq. unwell, indisposed.
Derivatives:
cleverly adv. cleverness n.
Etymology: ME, adroit: perh. rel. to CLEAVE(2), with sense 'apt to seize'