英语词汇“shrewd”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

shrewd

/ʃruːd

adjective

1Having or showing sharp powers of judgement; astute: she was shrewd enough to guess the motive behind his gesture a shrewd career move...

Pitt made his way to power more by shrewd political judgement and sheer luck than by public acclaim.
Your admirers and detractors alike have used these terms - an astute politician, shrewd, cunning - to characterise you.
He was a very shrewd, very sharp head of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Synonyms

astute, sharp-witted, sharp, acute, intelligent, clever, alert, canny, media-savvy, perceptive, perspicacious, observant, discriminating, sagacious, sage, wise, far-seeing, far-sighted;

cunning, artful, crafty, wily, calculating, disingenuous

informal on the ball, smart, savvy

British informal suss

Scottish & Northern English informal pawky

North American informal heads-up

rare long-headed, sapient, argute

(be shrewd) have all one's wits about one

2 archaic (Especially of weather) piercingly cold: a shrewd east wind

2.1(Of a blow) severe: a bayonet’s shrewd thrust

2.2Mischievous; malicious.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'evil in nature or character'): from shrew in the sense 'evil person or thing', or as the past participle of obsolete shrew 'to curse'. The word developed the sense 'cunning', and gradually gained a favourable connotation during the 17th century.

单词	shrewd
释义	shrewd /ʃruːd / adjective 1Having or showing sharp powers of judgement; astute: she was shrewd enough to guess the motive behind his gesture a shrewd career move... Pitt made his way to power more by shrewd political judgement and sheer luck than by public acclaim. Your admirers and detractors alike have used these terms - an astute politician, shrewd, cunning - to characterise you. He was a very shrewd, very sharp head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Synonyms astute, sharp-witted, sharp, acute, intelligent, clever, alert, canny, media-savvy, perceptive, perspicacious, observant, discriminating, sagacious, sage, wise, far-seeing, far-sighted; cunning, artful, crafty, wily, calculating, disingenuous informal on the ball, smart, savvy British informal suss Scottish & Northern English informal pawky North American informal heads-up rare long-headed, sapient, argute (be shrewd) have all one's wits about one 2 archaic (Especially of weather) piercingly cold: a shrewd east wind 2.1(Of a blow) severe: a bayonet’s shrewd thrust 2.2Mischievous; malicious. Origin Middle English (in the sense 'evil in nature or character'): from shrew in the sense 'evil person or thing', or as the past participle of obsolete shrew 'to curse'. The word developed the sense 'cunning', and gradually gained a favourable connotation during the 17th century. Rhymes allude, brood, collude, conclude, crude, delude, dude, elude, étude, exclude, extrude, exude, feud, food, illude, include, intrude, Jude, lewd, mood, nude, obtrude, occlude, Oudh, preclude, protrude, prude, pseud, pultrude, rood, rude, seclude, snood, transude, unglued, unsubdued, who'd, you'd
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