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unclever

unclever adjective: not clever.

Adjective

unclever (comparative more unclever, superlative most unclever)

  1. Not clever.
    • On Gawker, the media gossip Web site, editors select the best comments of the week and conduct commenter executions, in which users judged to be unclever are stripped of their commenting privileges.2007 September 30, Allen Salkin, “All-Stars of the Clever Riposte”, in New York Times

Forms of unclever

comparativemore unclever
superlativemost unclever

Origin of unclever

From un- + clever.

Questions about unclever

What does unclever mean?
Unclever means not clever.
What part of speech is unclever?
Unclever is an adjective.

Words near unclever in the dictionary

  1. unclerkly
  2. uncles
  3. uncles-in-law
  4. uncleship
  5. uncleships
  6. unclever
  7. uncleverly
  8. uncleverness
  9. unclew
  10. unclewed
  11. unclewing

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