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101clever — adj 1. bright, brilliant, luminous, keen, acute, sharp, sharp witted, sharp as a tack; intelligent, gifted, well endowed, precocious, talented; apt, smart, agile, quick, quick witted, ready; able, capable, competent, efficient; adept, proficient …
102deft — adj 1. dexterous, ambidextrous, adroit, handy, neat, Brit. Dial. feat; nimble, light, agile, active, quick, rapid, brisk, swift, lively; skillful, skilled, adept, proficient, facile, ready, experienced, Fr. au fait. 2. clever, shrewd, Archaic.… …
103dexterous — adj 1. adroit, deft, ambidextrous, handy, neat, Brit. Dial. feat; nimble, agile, quick; facile, ready, skilled, skillful; proficient, adept, experienced, Fr. au fait. 2. clever, shrewd, Archaic. parlous, Inf. cute; ingenious, inventive,… …
104intelligent — adj 1. perspicacious, discerning, penetrating, perceptive, percipient, insightful; gifted, well endowed, talented, intellectual, intelligential, brainy; educated, learned, instructed, well schooled; erudite, knowledgeable, versed, well read,… …
105penetrating — [adj1] stinging, harsh biting, carrying, clear cut, crisp, cutting, edged, entering, forcing, going through, infiltrating, ingoing, intrusive, passing through, penetrant, permeating, pervasive, piercing, pointed, puncturing, pungent, sharp,… …
106keen — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. piercing, stinging, nippy; sharp, edged, cutting, razorlike; eager, enthusiastic, ardent; acute, clever, shrewd, quick. See desire, sharpness, feeling, intelligence, cold. keen on II (Roget s IV)… …
107enterprising — adjective an enterprising farmer is now charging visitors Syn: resourceful, entrepreneurial, imaginative, ingenious, inventive, creative; quick witted, clever, bright, sharp, sharp witted; enthusiastic, dynamic, proactive, ambitious, energetic;… …
108quick off the mark — an elite force that was more quick off the mark than any fighting element in the sector Syn: alert, quick, quick witted, bright, clever, perceptive, sharp, sharp witted, observant, wide awake, on one s toes; informal on the ball, quick on the… …
109piercing — adj 1.(usu. of sound) loud, blaring, shrill, high pitched, high; earsplitting, ear shattering, eardrum puncturing, air rending; strident, grating, harsh, cacophonous; screeching, squealing, squeaking, shrieking. 2.(usu. of eyes) penetrating,… …
110quick off the mark — ALERT, quick, quick witted, bright, clever, perceptive, sharp, sharp witted, observant, wide awake, on one s toes; informal on the ball, quick on the uptake. → mark * * * quick off the mark Prompt to act • • • Main Entry: ↑quick * * * quick off… …
