shrewd · astute · cagey · canny · crafty · farsighted · ingenious · judicious · keen · penetrating · perceptive · probing · prudent · sensible · sharp · slick ...

He's too shrewd to trust in business matters. Synonyms. sly · crafty · cunning.

Synonyms: clever, astute, calculating, canny, crafty, cunning, intelligent, keen, perceptive, perspicacious, sharp, smart.

shrewd, sagacious, perspicacious, astute mean acute in perception and sound in judgment. shrewd stresses practical, hardheaded cleverness and judgment.

▲ Showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters, sometimes with guile. astute. clever. canny.

Use the adjective shrewd to describe a person or thing that is smart or clever in a practical sort of way.

a shrewd businessman. Synonyms: intelligent, discriminating, keen, sagacious, perspicacious, perceptive, discerning, quick.

Synonyms. astute · calculating · clever ... (Definition of shrewd from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) ...

Synonyms: clever , sharp , astute, canny, savvy (informal), discerning, judicious, sagacious, perspicacious, quick , quick-witted, quick-thinking, intelligent ...