cunning

Meaning of cunning

adjective
  1. Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
  2. Skillful, artful.
  3. Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious.
    cunning work
  4. Cute, appealing.
    a cunning little boy
noun
  1. Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity.
  2. Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skillful deceit; art or magic.
  3. The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful.
  4. The natural wit or instincts of an animal.
    the cunning of the fox or hare
  5. Knowledge; learning; special knowledge (sometimes implying occult or magical knowledge).

Information about cunning

  • The plural form of cunning is: cunnings.
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Hyphenation of cunning

cun-ning

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • cunning is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

cunning synonyms

Meaning cute:

cute

Meaning crafty:

crafty, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily

Meaning clever:

clever, ingenious

Meaning craft:

craft, craftiness, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness

Translation of cunning

Words that rhyme with cunning

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