shrewd: Prefix, Suffix and Derived words

Suffixes of shrewd

  • shrewdly
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    shrewdly

    • adverb in a shrewd manner
      sagaciously; sapiently; astutely; acutely.
      • he invested his fortune astutely
      • he was acutely insightful

  • shrewdness
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    shrewdness

    • noun intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)
      perspicaciousness; astuteness; perspicacity.

  • shrewdest
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    shrewd

    • adjective satellite marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
      sharp; astute.
      • a smart businessman
      • an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease
      • he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow
    • adjective satellite used of persons
      scheming; conniving; calculative; calculating.
      • the most calculating and selfish men in the community

  • shrewder
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    shrewd

    • adjective satellite marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
      sharp; astute.
      • a smart businessman
      • an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease
      • he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow
    • adjective satellite used of persons
      scheming; conniving; calculative; calculating.
      • the most calculating and selfish men in the community





About Prefix and Suffix Words

This page lists all the words created by adding prefixes, suffixes to the word `shrewd`. For each word, youwill notice a blue bar below the word. The longer the blue bar below a word, the more common/popular the word. Very short blue bars indicate rare usage.

While some of the words are direct derivations of the word `shrewd`, some are not.

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