wily
Syllables: wi·ly/ˈwaɪ.li/
wily adjective: sly, cunning, full of tricks.
Adjective
wily (comparative wilier or more wily, superlative wiliest or most wily)
- Sly, cunning, full of tricks.
- Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette, and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it.
- Of all the medical monsters Peter Hotez could have set out to slay, the Yale University researcher could not have chosen a more wily and obscure villain than the hookworm.1996 October 6, William Hathaway, “PARASITE LINKS MEN IN DARING VENTURE”, in Hartford Courant, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2020
wily meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
wily in Urdu
- حیلہ گر, مکار
wily in Malayalam
- കപടമായ, കൗശലമുളള, തന്ത്രമുളള
wily in Kannada
- ಕುಯುಕ್ತಿಯ, ಕುತಂತ್ರದ, ಧೂರ್ತತನದ, ಕಪಟ, ಮೋಸದ, ಅಜ್ಜ
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Forms of wily
| comparative | wilier |
|---|---|
| comparative | more wily |
| superlative | wiliest |
| superlative | most wily |
Origin of wily
From Middle English wily, wiley, wyly. By surface analysis, wil(e) + -y.
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Questions about wily
- What does wily mean?
- Wily means sly, cunning, full of tricks.
- What is wily in Urdu?
- Wily in Urdu is حیلہ گر, مکار. See Wily meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is wily?
- Wily is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce wily?
- Wily is pronounced /ˈwaɪ.li/.
Words near wily in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: wily (page history and authors); wily (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wily (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wily (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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