"clueful" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈkluː.fəl/ [UK] Forms: more clueful [comparative], most clueful [superlative]
Etymology: From clue + -ful, by analogy with clueless. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|clue|ful|pos=adjective}} clue + -ful, {{m|en|clueless}} clueless Head templates: {{en-adj}} clueful (comparative more clueful, superlative most clueful)
  1. (informal) Knowledgeable and well-informed. Tags: informal Derived forms: cluefulness, cluefully Related terms: pointful
    Sense id: en-clueful-en-adj-lYlzzYUN Categories (other): English adjectives suffixed with -ful, English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "2016 February 26, Emil Eifrem, “Lessons In Moving Your Startup Overseas To Silicon Valley”, in TechCrunch, archived from the original on 2022-01-20",
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          "text": "It's rare for a television series about technology to get anything right about how computers work, let alone how hackers do their jobs. But in a pop culture landscape flooded with shows like CSI: Cyber and Scorpion, the CBS show Person of Interest stood out as smart, relevant, and mostly clueful about how networked devices actually function.",
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          "ref": "2016 August 31, David Roberts, “The Eastern US could get a third of its power from renewables within 10 years. Theoretically.”, in Vox, archived from the original on 2022-11-27",
          "text": "These kinds of things — the political, social, and institutional changes — are more difficult than the technological challenge. And unfortunately, there is no model, no simulation, and no supercomputer that can show us how to induce today's socioeconomic institutions and their leaders to behave in a more clueful fashion.",
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          "ref": "2019 March 8, Marjorie Ingall, “Confessions of a Sensitivity Reader”, in Tablet, archived from the original on 2022-11-28",
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