Word Meanings - CUNNING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Knowing; skillfull; dexterous. "A cunning workman." Ex. xxxviii.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CUNNING)

• Art
• Science
• literature
• aptitude
• readiness
• adroitness
• skill
• dexterity
• cunning
• deceit
• duplicity
• tactics
• profession
• artifice
• management
• trade
• business
• calling
• Artful
• Cunning
• designing
• maneuvering
• sharp
• knowing
• subtle
• sly
• crafty
• wily
• shrewd
• Craft
• guile
• stratagem
• manoeuvre
• wiliness
• trickery
• chicanery
• intrigue
• underhandedness
• dodge
• Deceit
• Cheat
• imposition
• trick
• fraud
• deception
• double dealing
• delusion
• circumvention
• bewilderment
• treachery
• sham
• insidiousness
• indirection
• Design
• Contemplation
• pur pose
• intention
• plan
• delineation
• sketch
• drawing
• artfulness
• contrivance
• intent
• project
• scheme

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CUNNING)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse
• Recal
• withdraw
• draw
• retract
• pull
• attract
• rebound
• recoil
• adduce
• revert
• rebate

Related words: (words related to CUNNING)

• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• KNOWINGLY
  1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype. 2. By experience. Shak.
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• DRAWER
  An under-garment worn on the lower limbs. Chest of drawers. See under Chest. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, draws; as: One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom. Shak. One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• SKILLFUL
  1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• CRAFTY
  1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. "Crafty work." Piers Plowman. 2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif. 3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
• DRAWCANSIR
  A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully. The leader was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe. Addison.
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• REVERT
  To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series , to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• DOUBLE
  Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• THYROIDEAL
  Thyroid.
• KINGCRAFT
  The craft of kings; the art of governing as a sovereign; royal policy. Prescott.
• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.