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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleverness/#m1)

2) Cleverness can also mean being tricky or cunning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleverness/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleverness/#x1)
- Everyone admired the cleverness of her idea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleverness/#x2)
- His cleverness helped the team win the quiz. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleverness/#x3)
- Cleverness is useful, but kindness matters more. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleverness/#x4)
- The cleverness of the trick surprised us all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleverness/#x5)
- In fairy tales, the youngest child often wins by cleverness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleverness/#x6)
- And he sat and scratched his head, and thought about his own cleverness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleverness/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cleverness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleverness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.