different between sly vs shady
sly
English
Alternative forms
- sligh (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English sly, sley, sleigh, slei?, from Old Norse slægr, slœgr (“sly, cunning”, literally “capable of hitting or striking”), from Proto-Germanic *sl?giz (“lively, agile, cunning, sly, striking”), from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, throw”). Cognate with Icelandic slægur (“crafty, sly”), Norwegian Nynorsk sløg (“sly”), Swedish slug (“sly”). Related to sleight, slay. In all likelihood, however, unrelated with Saterland Frisian slau (“sly, crafty”), Dutch sluw (“sly, cunning”), Low German slu (“sly, cunning”), German schlau (“clever, crafty”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sla?/
- Rhymes: -a?
Adjective
sly (comparative slier or slyer, superlative sliest or slyest)
- Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
- (having a positive sense) Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice
- Synonyms: nimble, skillful, cautious, shrewd
- Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle
- Light or delicate; slight; thin.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:wily
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- sly in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- sly in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Adverb
sly
- Slyly.
Anagrams
- Lys, YLS, YLs, lys, syl-
Lower Sorbian
Adjective
sly
- Obsolete spelling of z?y (“bad, evil”)
Middle English
Alternative forms
- scle, slei, sley, scley, slegh, sleigh, sleygh, sligh, slygh, sle?, slei?, slei?h, sli?, sly?, scli?, sly?h, sleyh, slih, slyh
Etymology
From Old Norse slœgr, from Proto-Germanic *sl?giz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sli?/, /sl?i?/, /slix/, /sl?i?x/
Adjective
sly (plural and weak singular slye, comparative slyer, superlative sliest)
- Judicious, considered, shrewd; having or indicative of great wisdom.
- Adept, expert, quality; having or indicative of great expertise.
- Sly, artful, wily; employing or being an example of deception.
- (rare) Attractive; having good looks.
- (rare) Unknown or hidden.
Related terms
- sleighly
- sleight
- slynesse
Descendants
- English: sly
- Scots: slee
References
- “sleigh, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-05.
Swedish
Noun
sly n
- very young trees, in particular while growing very densely
Declension
Anagrams
- lys, syl, yls
sly From the web:
- what slytherin are you
- what sly mean
- what slytherin means
- what slytherin
- what slytherin are you buzzfeed
- what slytherin are you quizzable
- what slytherin character are you
- what slytherin house are you in
shady
English
Etymology
From shade +? -y. Compare Saterland Frisian skaadich, skaddich (“shady”), German schattig (“shady”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??e?di/
- Rhymes: -e?di
Adjective
shady (comparative shadier, superlative shadiest)
- Abounding in shades.
- Causing shade.
- The shady trees cover him with their shadow.
- Overspread with shade; sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Building
- you may have rooms both for summer and winter; shady for summer, and warm for winter
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Building
- (informal) Not trustworthy; disreputable.
- He is a shady character.
- 2009: Stuart Heritage, Hecklerspray, Friday the 22nd of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”
- Jon & Kate Plus 8 is a show based on two facts: 1) Jon and Kate Gosselin have eight children, and 2) the word ‘Kate’ rhymes with the word ‘eight’. One suspects that if Kate were ever to have another child, a shady network executive would urge her to put it in a binbag with a brick and drop it down a well. But this is just a horrifying tangent.
- (Britain, slang) Mean, cruel.
- Don't be shady, give us a go.
Synonyms
- (not trustworthy): corrupt, dodgy, dubious, equivocal, seedy, sketchy, suspicious
Translations
Anagrams
- dashy
shady From the web:
- what shady means
- what shady beaches bronzer
- what shady beaches
- what's shady in daytona
- what's shady in daytona facebook
- what shady means in spanish
- what's shady records phone number
- shady place meaning
you may also like
- sly vs shady
- correspondent vs interrelated
- bile vs malignity
- tomfoolery vs joviality
- placard vs circular
- avow vs accuse
- advantage vs benefaction
- normal vs everyday
- wrap vs obscure
- rival vs fighter
- enable vs admit
- anterior vs precedent
- irrational vs harebrained
- listless vs slack
- animus vs revengefulness
- number vs conclave
- direction vs chance
- unuttered vs unpronounced
- identify vs connect
- sacrosanct vs protected