cunning
cunning is a 7-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Knowing; skillful; dexterous. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Knowing; skillful; dexterous.
- adjective. Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work.
- adjective. Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful.
- adjective. Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy.
- adjective. Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.
- adjective. The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft.
- noun. crafty artfulness (especially in deception)
- noun. shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- adjective. showing inventiveness and skill
"a clever gadget"
"the cunning maneuvers leading to his success"
- adjective. marked by skill in deception
"cunning men often pass for wise"
"deep political machinations"
- adjective. attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness
"a cute kid with pigtails"
"a cute little apartment"
Synonyms
craft, craftiness, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness, clever, ingenious, crafty, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily, cute
Common word forms
cunnings, cunninger, cunningly, cunningest, cunningness
Words from these letters
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