different between cautious vs shrewd
cautious
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k????s/
- Rhymes: -????s
Adjective
cautious (comparative more cautious, superlative most cautious)
- careful; using or exercising caution; tentative
- He took a few cautious steps toward the cave.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:cautious
Antonyms
- careless
- incautious
- neglecting
- uncautious
Derived terms
Translations
cautious From the web:
- what cautious mean
- cautious person meaning
- what's cautious in french
- what's cautiously optimistic mean
- what's cautious in german
- cautious meaning in english
- what cautious driver meaning
- what's cautiously optimistic
shrewd
English
Alternative forms
- shrewde (obsolete)
Etymology
c. 1300, Middle English schrewed (“depraved; wicked”, literally “accursed”), from schrewen (“to curse; beshrew”), from schrewe, schrowe, screwe (“evil or wicked person/thing”), from Old English scr?awa (“wicked person”, literally “biter”). Equivalent to shrew +? -ed. More at shrew.
The sense of "cunning" developed in early 16th c., gradually gaining a positive connotation by 17th c.
Pronunciation
- enPR: shro?od, IPA(key): /??u?d/
- Rhymes: -u?d
Adjective
shrewd (comparative shrewder, superlative shrewdest)
- 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.
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III Scene ii:
- Portia:
- There are some shrewd contents in yon same paper,
- That steals the colours from Bassanio's cheek:
- Some dear friend dead; else nothing in the world
- Could turn so much the constitution
- Of any constant man. What, worse and worse!— […]
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III Scene ii:
- (obsolete) Portending, boding.
- (archaic) Noxious, scatheful, mischievous.
- (obsolete) Abusive, shrewish.
- (archaic) Scolding, satirical, sharp.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act II Scene i:
- Leonato: By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act II Scene i:
Derived terms
- shrewdly
- shrewdness
Translations
shrewd From the web:
- what shrewd means
- shrewdest meaning
- what is meant by shrewd
- what's shrewd in arabic
- what shrewdness synonym
- shrewd what does it mean
- shrewdest what does it mean
- what does shrewd mean in the bible
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- cautious vs shrewd
- uninteresting vs stodgy
- multitude vs circle
- quixotic vs nutty
- discharge vs voidance
- discrimination vs scrupulousness
- keeping vs control
- exaggerated vs overtheatrical
- indispensable vs pertinent
- contemptible vs unbearable
- savage vs maddened
- stymie vs baffle
- mercurial vs uneven
- active vs interested
- hunk vs division
- insulting vs sickening
- absolute vs obvious
- warmhearted vs wholehearted
- dealings vs exchange
- command vs writ