adv
Meaning 1
In a shrewd manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
shrewdly
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adverb
Meaning 2
in a shrewd manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he invested his fortune astutely
- he was acutely insightful
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: astutely, sagaciously, sapiently, acutely
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English shrewd Middle English -ly English -ly English shrewdly From shrewd + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Czech: chytře — in a shrewd manner
- Finnish: ovelasti — in a shrewd manner
- Finnish: terävästi — in a shrewd manner
- French: astucieusement — in a shrewd manner
- French: avec perspicacité — in a shrewd manner
- German: geschickt — in a shrewd manner
- Italian: scaltramente — in a shrewd manner
- Italian: astutamente — in a shrewd manner
- Northern Kurdish: bijîrî — in a shrewd manner
- Northern Kurdish: jîrkî — in a shrewd manner
- Middle English: sleighly — in a shrewd manner
- Polish: chytrze — in a shrewd manner
- Portuguese: astutamente — in a shrewd manner
- Spanish: astutamente — in a shrewd manner
- Spanish: con perspicacia — in a shrewd manner
- Swedish: klokt — in a shrewd manner