shrewdness
2
6.3
- noun
- /ʃruːdnəs/
:
astucia
- 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
17
7.9
Skill at making good, quick decisions in a specific area
10
6.4
Practical knowledge and good judgment in everyday matters
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
4.0
The ability to think quickly and act cleverly
1
7.5
Being careful and clever when making decisions about money
1
7.5
Being experienced and able to make good choices
1
7.5
Ability to do things quickly and well
The ability to understand things quickly and make good decisions
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.