shrewd🔊

Showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters.

Artful, tricky or cunning.

(informal) Streetwise, street-smart.

Knowledgeable, intelligent, keen.

Nigh accurate.

Severe, intense, hard.

Sharp, snithy, piercing.

(archaic) Bad, evil, threatening.

(obsolete) Portending, boding.

(archaic) Noxious, scatheful, mischievous.

(obsolete) Abusive, shrewish.

(archaic) Scolding, satirical, sharp.