Thesaurus:wily

Thesaurus

wily

English

Adjective

Sense: full of tricks or stratagems designed to deceive

Synonyms

• astute
• artful
• cautelous (obsolete)
• crafty
• cunning    [⇒ thesaurus]
• foxlike
• foxy
• frood (Scotland, Northern England)
• guileful
• shrewd
• slim (now South Africa)
• sly
• subtle    [⇒ thesaurus]
• tricky
• vulpine
• wily

Antonyms

• guileless
• gullible    [⇒ thesaurus]
• honest    [⇒ thesaurus]
• ingenuous
• naive    [⇒ thesaurus]
• unwise

Hypernyms

• deceitful
• intelligent    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:cunning
• Thesaurus:intelligent
• Thesaurus:learned
• Thesaurus:wise

External links

• “702. cunning” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “wily” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.