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Definition: Cleverly |
CleverlyAdverb1. In a clever manner; "they were cleverly arranged"; "a smartly managed business". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cleverly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonym: CleverlySynonym: smartly (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cleverly |
| English words defined with "cleverly": bantering ♦ equivocation, evasion ♦ facetious ♦ smartly ♦ tongue-in-cheek. (references) |
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Lyrics | You read your line so cleverly and never missed a cue (Are You Lonesome Tonight?; performing artist: Elvis Presley) | |
Clever | Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult. (references; author: unknown) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | West (door) elevation. Photograph by Gerda Peterich, September 1962. (Reproduction Number: HABS ME,3-PORTS,1-2) This unusual-looking lighthouse is built of curved cast-iron plates whose seams are cleverly disguised by six decorative Corinthian columns. Built in 1855 and rebuilt twenty years later, the lighthouse may have been the work of Thomas Ustick Walter, designer of the dome of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. The lighthouse's flashing red beacon helped guide ships from Casco Bay through the entrance to Portland Harbor. Wooden sheds and a six-room house for the lighthouse-keeper were added at a later date but have since been removed. The lighthouse itself was abandoned in 1943. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Cleverly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 98.47% of the time. "Cleverly" is used about 261 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 98.47% | 257 | 18,451 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.53% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 261 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "cleverly" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cleverly | Last name | 100 | 86,655 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "cleverly": contrive smth. cleverly. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cleverly": cleverly-designed, cleverly-devised, cleverly-disguised, cleverly-titled, cleverly-worded. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cleverly | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cleverly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 聪明地 (smartly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | chytře nìco nastrojit (contrive smth. cleverly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | taitavasti (capably, skilfully, with skill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | habilement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schlau (artful, astute, brightly, canny, clever, crafty, cunning, cunningly, cute, foxy, leery, neat, neatly, nifty, sharp, shifty, shrewd, shrewdly, slily, sly, slyly, smart, smartly, sneaky, vulpine, vulpinely, wily, wise), klug (able, astute, astutely, brainy, bright, clever, diplomatic, discreet, discreetly, ingenious, intelligent, judicious, judiciously, knowledgable, knowledgeable, politic, prudent, prudently, reasonable, sagacious, sagaciously, sage, sagely, sensible, shrewd, smart, sophisticated, sound, wary, wise, witty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έξυπνα (intelligently, neatly, shrewdly, smartly, wittily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | saggio (assay, bright, clever, graybeard, greybeard, paper, politic, sagacious, sage, sample, sapient, specimen, taste, test, well advised, wise, wise man). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 手際良く (efficiently, skillfully), 旨く (aptly, deliciously, skillfully, well). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | うまく (aptly, deliciously, skillfully, well), てぎわよく (efficiently, skillfully). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 영리하게. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | everlyclay ingenios (clever, cute, daedal, ingenious, inventive, patent, sagacious, skilful, skillful). (various references) sabio (bright, clever, craftsman, erudite, gash, guru, intellect, intellectual, intelligent, learned, sagacious, sage, savant, wise), hábilmente (ably, skilfully, skillfully). (various references) duktigt (ably, efficiently, hard, powerfully, soundly). (various references) akıllıca (intelligently, judicious, no-nonsense, sagacious, sane, sensible, shrewd, wisely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | callide, ingeniose. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Cleverly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Calveley, Calvely, Claverley, Clevely, Clevelys, luvverly, Mceveily, Mclaversly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cleverly" (pronounced kle"verlē) |
| 4 | -v er l ē | overly. |
| 3 | -er l ē | bitterly, brotherly, circularly, disorderly, eagerly, easterly, elderly, entirely, extracellularly, fatherly, formerly, gingerly, grandfatherly, grandmotherly, improperly, irregularly, lawyerly, leisurely, linearly, masterly, miserly, motherly, neighborly, northeasterly, northerly, northwesterly, orderly, painterly, particularly, peculiarly, popularly, properly, quarterly, regularly, scholarly, similarly, singularly, soberly, somberly, southerly, spectacularly, tenderly, utterly, Weatherly, westerly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-l-l-r-v-y" | |
-2 letters: celery, clever, yeller. | |
-3 letters: creel, elver, every, leery, level, lever, lycee, revel, veery. | |
-4 letters: cell, cere, eely, eery, ever, eyer, eyre, leer, levy, lyre, reel, rely, veer, very, yell. | |
-5 letters: cee, cel, cry, eel, ell, ere, eve, eye, lee, lev, ley, lye, rec, ree, rev, rye, vee. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-l-l-r-v-y" | |
+3 letters: reclusively, viceregally. | |
+4 letters: preclusively, reflectively. | |
+5 letters: correlatively, declaratively. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6C 65 76 65 72 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-.. . ...- . .-. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101100 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C l e v e r l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006C 0065 0076 0065 0072 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3778718871847891 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kiinalainen, Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, chino, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, ceco, 체", ceh, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, finský, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finlandese, 핀란", finlandezã, finlandés, finés, finsk, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzský, francouzština, ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, フレコン化 , 仏文 , フランス" , 仏 , ふつぶ", ふつ, フレンチ , フランセ , "랑스, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , nìmec, nìmecký, saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, neamţ, alemán, tysk, alman |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | 希腊语, 希臘語 , řek, řecký, řeètina, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", 그리스, greacã, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italský, italština, ital, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, 이탈리아, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, italiensk, italienska, italienare, italyanca, italyan |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japonský, japanilainen, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, japonezã, japonés, japansk, Japonca |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japonský, japanilainen, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, japonezã, japonés, japansk, Japonca |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , korejec, korejština, korejský, coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτικοσ, κορεάτησ, 한국, limba coreeanã, coreean, coreano, koreansk, kore'li |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | 罗马尼亚语, rumunský, rumunština, romanialainen, Roumain, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, rumeno, 루마니아, român, rumano, rumänsk |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, španìlský, španìlština, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, švédský, švédština, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", 스웨덴, sueco, svensk, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | 土耳其語 , 土耳其, turecký, tureètina, turkkilainen, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, turcesc, turc, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglicky, englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, 영국, englezesc, inglés, engelsk, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
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