shrewdness
2
6.3
- noun
- /ʃruːdnəs/
- Her shrewdness in negotiating contracts has saved the company a lot of money.
- political shrewdness
Examples
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What they lacked in technical skill, they made up for with intellectual vigor, practical shrewdness, and sheer love of the subject.
Academic text (1991) -
The kind of shrewdness that made the Schubert Brothers a fortune.
Fiction book (2001) -
On the whole, he thought not, with the shrewdness of a boy who knows that it may be dangerous to share secrets with men.
Fiction book (1999) -
She'd also seen the shrewdness and intelligence in them, something she'd expected to find.
Fiction book (2001) -
What would you do without his brains, his generosity, his shrewdness?
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Only the shrewdness of Detective Dupin causes the ruse to be penetrated and the letter recovered.
Academic text (1999) -
Displaying growing political shrewdness, the evangelicals now lobbied for the religious rights of all non-Anglicans.
Academic text (1996) -
Indeed, her shrewdness in her business dealings (she was a rack-renting landlord of dilapidated properties)
Academic text (2010) -
Despite his shrewdness, Nasrallah has been a compulsive gambler for whom only one step separates success from catastrophe.
Academic text (2009) -
Herman Melville's great monument to the wisdom of mistrust, The Confidence Man, dilates proverbial shrewdness to a brilliantly skeptical extreme.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
21
6.4
Practical knowledge and good judgment in everyday matters
17
7.9
Skill at making good, quick decisions in a specific area
2
4.0
The ability to think quickly and act cleverly
2
9.6
The ability to notice and understand things quickly and clearly
1
6.9
Skill in understanding people or situations quickly and using that to your advantage
1
7.5
Ability to do things quickly and well
1
7.5
Being experienced and able to make good choices
1
7.5
Being careful and clever when making decisions about money
1
9.9
The ability to understand things quickly and make good decisions
1
9.1
Being wise and showing good judgment
Antonyms
How Shrewd
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word shrewdness comes from the old word shrew for a sharp, quick person, so imagine someone 'sharp' who notices chances others miss. That's why shrewdness means the skill to judge people or situations well and use that to your advantage.