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Definition: Artfulness |
ArtfulnessNoun1. The quality of being adroit in taking unfair advantage. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "artfulness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
| Antonym: artlessness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Falsehood | Unfairness; (dishonesty); artfulness; (cunning); misstatement; (error). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Artfulness |
| English words defined with "artfulness": cunning ♦ Simple obligation ♦ Unsimplicity ♦ Vulpinism. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "artfulness": Lion ♦ Mouse ♦ Seat. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "artfulness": Vulpinism. (references) |
| "Artfulness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Artfulness" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "artfulness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zgjuarsi (ability, acuteness, aptness, cleverness, finesse, ingeniousness, ingenuity, intelligence, mind, readiness, sagacity, shrewdness, smartness, wit), dinakëri (craftiness, cunning, deception, deviousness, mischief, shrewdness, slyness, trickery, wile, wiliness). (various references) | |
Arabic | مكر (archness, artifice, brown, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deception, double dealing, feint, fish, foxiness, furtiveness, guile, ploy, roguery, ruse, sham, slyness, trick, wiliness), دهاء (craft, cunning, fineness, finesse, guile, malignity, maneuver, manoeuvre, ploy, resource, sagacity, sharpness, slyness, wit), براعة (address, artifice, cleverness, craft, craftiness, cunning, dexterity, facility, finesse, hand, ingeniousness, ingenuity, knack, know how, mastery, proficiency, science, skill, skillfulness, sleight of hand, tact, trick, workmanship). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хитрост (archness, art, artifice, deceitfulness, device, dodge, finesse, game, guile, overreach, policy, ruse, shrewdness, slyness, stratagem, trick). (various references) | |
Czech | lstivost (craft, craftiness, guile, slyness, subtlety, wiliness). (various references) | |
French | adresse (artifice), ruse (art, artifice), cautèle. (various references) | |
German | List (artifice, craftiness, cunning, guile, ploy, ruse, shift, stealth, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, wile, wiles). (various references) | |
Greek | πανουργία (archness, craft, craftiness, cunning, cunningness, guile, ruse, shrewdness, slyness, trickishness, wile, wiliness), επιδεξιότησ (cleverness, skill), τέχνη (art, craft, metier, skill, trade, workmanship). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ערמומיות (archness, cunning, foxiness, slyness, wiliness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ügyesség (accomplishment, address, adroitness, art, artifice, artificiality, cleverness, craftwork, deftness, dexterity, efficiency, expertness, facility, faculty, ingeniousness, ingenuity, knowingness, labour skill, mastery, neatness, skilfulness, skill, slickness). (various references) | |
Italian | astuzia (astuteness, cunning, guile, leeriness, ruse, sharpness, shrewdness, slyness, slynesses, stratagem, trick, wangling, wile, wiliness), furberia (craftiness, cunningness, slyness, trick). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 小細工 (tricks). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "ざいく (tricks). (various references) | |
Manx | ellyn (art, artistry, behaviour, breeding, craftsmanship, manners), croutid (craftiness), cooishaght (slutness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | artfulnessay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | astúcia (art, astuteness, craft, craftiness, cunning, dodge, double, invention, ruse, slyness, stratagem, trick, trickery, tweak, wile), esperteza (ability, artifice, brightness, canniness, craft, policy, quicksilver, slyness, smartness, snap), destreza (ability, adroitness, aptitude, art, cunning, dexterity, hand, knack, skill, wit). (various references) | |
Romanian | viclenie (archness, astuteness, catch, contrivance, craft, cunning, devilry, finesse, fraud, guile, ruse, shift, subtlety, vicleim, wile), falsitate (cunning, deceitfulness, depth, double dealing, duplicity, fallacy, falsehood, falseness, falsity, hollowness, insincerity, mendacity, untruth), şmecherie (art, artifice, chouse, contrivance, craft, cunning, depth, do, dodge, fetch, fiddle, sell, slyness, swindle, trickery), şiretenie (artifice, craft, craftiness, cunning, finesse, guile, pawkiness, slyness). (various references) | |
Russian | ловкость (address, adroitness, agility, cleverness, craft, deftness, dexterity, finesse, hand, knack, light hand, shiftiness, sleight, smartness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | veštost, lukavost (astuteness, cunning, foxiness, shrewdness, subtlety). (various references) | |
Spanish | astucia (archness, astuteness, cleverness, craft, craftiness, cunning, flirtation, foxiness, guile, overreach, pawkiness, shiftiness, shrewdness, slyness, snare, subtlety, trickery, wiliness, worldly wisdom), ingenio (ability, apparatus, cleverness, consciousness, contraption, device, engine, erudition, foundry, genius, ingenuity, inventiveness, mill, nimbleness, plant, saltiness, talented person, wisp, wit), engaño (bamboozle, betrayal, cozenage, deceit, deceitfulness, deceiving, deception, delusion, double cross, dupe, dupery, falsification, fraud, guile, hoax, imposture, lure, mistake, misunderstanding, overreach, phony, sham, swindle, token, trick, trickery), destreza (accomplishment, adeptness, adroitness, antfencing, craft, dexterity, expertness, fencing, know how, skilfulness, skill, skillfulness). (various references) | |
Thai | ความมีทักษะ. (various references) | |
Turkish | ustalık (art, craftsmanship, deftness, dexterity, expertness, facility, feat, finesse, hand, handiness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, knack, masterliness, mastership, mastery, perfection, proficiency, skill, sleight, subtility, subtlety, virtuosity, wizardry, workmanship), maharet (deftness, dexterity, savoir faire, skill), kurnazlık (archness, art, artifice, arts, astuteness, craftiness, cunning, dodge, finesse, foxiness, guile, shenanigan, shiftiness, slyness, smartness, stratagem, strategy, subtility, subtlety, trick, wheeler-dealing, wheeling and dealing, wiliness, wrinkle), hinlik (cunning, guile, wiliness), beceri (ability, accomplishment, accomplishments, address, adroitness, art, artifice, attainments, craft, cunning, deftness, dexterity, faculty, feat, finesse, ingeniousness, ingenuity, knack, know how, resource, savoir faire, science, skill, sleight, wizardry). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | умілість (cleverness, craft), спритність (ability, activity, adroitness, agility, alertness, cleverness, deftness, efficiency, knack, nimbleness, policy, readiness, sleight), хитрість (archness, artifice, astuteness, catch, craft, craftiness, cunning, finesse, foxery, overreach, pawk, ploy, sharpness, sleight, stealth, trick, trickery, wiliness), вправність (address, adroitness, competence, competency, craft, deftness, efficiency, neatness, sharpness, subtlety), меткість (celerity, dexterity, nimbleness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính xảo quyệt (craftiness, foxiness), sự tinh ranh sự khéo léo, sự lắm mưu mẹo (shiftiness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "artfulness": artfulnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "artfulness" (pronounced 'Art"ful*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-l-n-r-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: flaunters, transfuse. | |
-2 letters: anestrus, flaneurs, flatness, flatuses, flaunter, flusters, funerals, neutrals, refusals, refutals, salterns, saluters, saunters, sulfates, turfless. | |
-3 letters: antlers, artless, earfuls, eluants, estrual, falsest, falters, farness, fastens, fasters, fatless, fatness, ferulas, flaneur, flaunts, fluster, fluters, frenula, fulness, funeral, furanes, furless, lasters, lusters, lustres, natures, neutral, refusal, refutal, rentals, restful, results, runless, runlets. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-l-n-r-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: tearfulness. | |
+2 letters: artfulnesses, gratefulness, transfusable, transfusible, wrathfulness. | |
+3 letters: masterfulness, tearfulnesses. | |
+4 letters: fraudulentness, gratefulnesses, ungratefulness, wrathfulnesses. | |
+5 letters: antifilibusters, flirtatiousness, masterfulnesses. | |
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