Dictionary Entry
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.
7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 16 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Knowing; skillful; dexterous.
- 2adjective
Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work.
- 3adjective
Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful.
- 4adjective
Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy.
- 5adjective
Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.
- 6adjective
The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft.
- 7noun
crafty artfulness (especially in deception)
- 8noun
shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- 9adjective
showing inventiveness and skill
"a clever gadget"
"the cunning maneuvers leading to his success"
- 10adjective
marked by skill in deception
"cunning men often pass for wise"
"deep political machinations"
- 11adjective
attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness
"a cute kid with pigtails"
"a cute little apartment"
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