Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
- Cunning on sanan cun partisiipin preesens.
Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
- (obsolete) Skillful, artful.
- (obsolete) Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious.
- (Maine, colloquial, dated) Cute, appealing.
Substantiivi
- Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity.
- Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skillful deceit; art or magic.
- The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful.
- The natural wit or instincts of an animal.
- (obsolete) Knowledge; learning; special knowledge (sometimes implying occult or magical knowledge).
Esimerkit
- They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere.
- Esau was a cunning hunter.
- a cunning workman
- Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white / Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.
- cunning work
- Over them Arachne high did lift / Her cunning web.
- a cunning little boy
- indeed at this very moment he's slipped away with the utmost cunning into a form that's most perplexing to investigate.
- the cunning of the fox or hare
- But he determined to proceed with cunning and caution, (Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens)
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | cunnings |
| Komparatiivi | cunninger |
| Komparatiivi | more cunning |
| Superlatiivi | cunningest |
| Superlatiivi | most cunning |