"wily" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈwaɪ.li/ Audio: en-us-wily.ogg [US] Forms: wilier [comparative], more wily [comparative], wiliest [superlative], most wily [superlative]
Rhymes: -aɪli Etymology: From Middle English wily, wiley, wyly; equivalent to wile + -y. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|wily}} Middle English wily, {{m|enm|wiley}} wiley, {{m|enm|wyly}} wyly, {{suf|en|wile|y}} wile + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|er|more}} wily (comparative wilier or more wily, superlative wiliest or most wily)
  1. Sly, cunning, full of tricks. Hypernyms: deceitful, intelligent Derived forms: wilily, wiliness, wily beguily Related terms: learned, wise Translations (sly, cunning): κίδαφος (kídaphos) (Ancient Greek), хитър (hitǎr) (Bulgarian), лукав (lukav) (Bulgarian), 狡猾 (jiǎohuá) (Chinese Mandarin), prohnaný (Czech), snu (Danish), gewiekst (Dutch), snood (Dutch), ovela (Finnish), viekas (Finnish), juonikas (Finnish), kiero (Finnish), luihu (Finnish), kavala (Finnish), rusé (French), perfide (French), fourbe (French), astuto [masculine] (Galician), schlau (German), listig (German), gerissen (German), πανούργος (panoúrgos) [masculine] (Greek), πονηρός (ponirós) [masculine] (Greek), ravasz (Hungarian), furbo (Italian), sornione [masculine] (Italian), subdolo (Italian), 狡猾な (kōkatsu na) (alt: こうかつな) (Japanese), 狡い (zurui) (alt: ずるい) (Japanese), 교활한 (gyohwal-han) (Korean), vafer (Latin), versūtus (Latin), dolōsus (Latin), hangahangarau (Maori), ganèl (Occitan), fals (Occitan), enganaire (Occitan), قورناز (kurnaz) (Ottoman Turkish), آصمق (asmak) (Ottoman Turkish), schlau (Plautdietsch), chytry (Polish), przebiegły (Polish), sprytny (Polish), ladino (Portuguese), matreiro (Portuguese), finório (Portuguese), хи́трый (xítryj) (Russian), лука́вый (lukávyj) (Russian), проны́рливый (pronýrlivyj) (Russian), изворо́тливый (izvorótlivyj) (Russian), seòlta (Scottish Gaelic), prefíkaný (Slovak), astuto (Spanish), listo (Spanish), pillo (Spanish), lömsk (Swedish), slug (Swedish), illistig (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "juonikas"
        },
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "kavala"
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "rusé"
        },
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "perfide"
        },
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "fourbe"
        },
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          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "astuto"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "schlau"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "listig"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "gerissen"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "panoúrgos",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "πανούργος"
        },
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          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "ponirós",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "tags": [
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          ],
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        },
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          "roman": "kídaphos",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "κίδαφος"
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "ravasz"
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          "code": "it",
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          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "tags": [
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          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "subdolo"
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          "alt": "こうかつな",
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          "roman": "kōkatsu na",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "狡猾な"
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          "alt": "ずるい",
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          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "zurui",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "狡い"
        },
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          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "gyohwal-han",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "교활한"
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          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "vafer"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "versūtus"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "dolōsus"
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        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "hangahangarau"
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        {
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "ganèl"
        },
        {
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "fals"
        },
        {
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "enganaire"
        },
        {
          "code": "ota",
          "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
          "roman": "kurnaz",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "قورناز"
        },
        {
          "code": "ota",
          "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
          "roman": "asmak",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "آصمق"
        },
        {
          "code": "pdt",
          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "schlau"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "chytry"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "przebiegły"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "sprytny"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "ladino"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "matreiro"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "finório"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "xítryj",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "хи́трый"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "lukávyj",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "лука́вый"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "pronýrlivyj",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "проны́рливый"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "izvorótlivyj",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "изворо́тливый"
        },
        {
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "seòlta"
        },
        {
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "prefíkaný"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "astuto"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "listo"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "pillo"
        },
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          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "lömsk"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "slug"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "sly, cunning",
          "word": "illistig"
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      "ipa": "/ˈwaɪ.li/"
    },
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    },
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      "homophone": "Wiley"
    },
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        "comparative"
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        "English terms suffixed with -y",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with homophones",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Rhymes:English/aɪli",
        "Rhymes:English/aɪli/2 syllables"
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        {
          "text": "Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Sly, cunning, full of tricks."
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        [
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          "cunning"
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    },
    {
      "homophone": "Wylie"
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    {
      "homophone": "Wylye"
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:wily",
      "word": "astute"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:wily",
      "word": "artful"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:wily",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "cautelous"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:wily",
      "word": "crafty"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:wily",
      "word": "cunning"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:wily",
      "word": "foxlike"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:wily",
      "word": "foxy"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:wily",
      "tags": [
        "Northern-England",
        "Scotland"
      ],
      "word": "frood"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:wily",
      "word": "guileful"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:wily",
      "word": "shrewd"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:wily",
      "tags": [
        "South-Africa"
      ],
      "word": "slim"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:wily",
      "word": "sly"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:wily",
      "word": "subtle"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:wily",
      "word": "tricky"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:wily",
      "word": "vulpine"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:wily",
      "word": "wily"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "hitǎr",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "хитър"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "lukav",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "лукав"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jiǎohuá",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "狡猾"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "prohnaný"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "snu"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "gewiekst"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "snood"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "ovela"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "viekas"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "juonikas"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "kiero"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "luihu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "kavala"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "rusé"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "perfide"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "fourbe"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "astuto"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "schlau"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "listig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "gerissen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "panoúrgos",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "πανούργος"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ponirós",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "πονηρός"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "kídaphos",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "κίδαφος"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "ravasz"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "furbo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sornione"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "subdolo"
    },
    {
      "alt": "こうかつな",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kōkatsu na",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "狡猾な"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ずるい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "zurui",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "狡い"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "gyohwal-han",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "교활한"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "vafer"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "versūtus"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "dolōsus"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "hangahangarau"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "ganèl"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "fals"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "enganaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "kurnaz",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "قورناز"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "asmak",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "آصمق"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "schlau"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "chytry"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "przebiegły"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "sprytny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "ladino"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "matreiro"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "finório"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "xítryj",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "хи́трый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "lukávyj",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "лука́вый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pronýrlivyj",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "проны́рливый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "izvorótlivyj",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "изворо́тливый"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "seòlta"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "prefíkaný"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "astuto"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "listo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "pillo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "lömsk"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "slug"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "sly, cunning",
      "word": "illistig"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wily"
}

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