Antonyms for savvy
| Grammar : Adj, noun |
| Spell : sav-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsæv i |
Definition of savvy
Origin :- 1785, "practical sense, intelligence;" also a verb, "to know, to understand;" West Indies pidgin borrowing of French savez(-vous)? "do you know?" or Spanish sabe (usted) "you know," both from Vulgar Latin *sapere, from Latin sapere "be wise, be knowing" (see sapient). The adjective is first recorded 1905, from the noun. Related: Savvily; savviness.
- adj shrewd
- noun shrewdness
- Course you know who it is, and you savvy how them things is done.
- Extract from : « Hidden Water » by Dane Coolidge
- Ill need some one who can savvy Russian more than anything else.
- Extract from : « The Radio Detectives Under the Sea » by A. Hyatt Verrill
- Then, touching the young man's breast she exclaimed, "Him sick, you savvy?"
- Extract from : « Gold-Seeking on the Dalton Trail » by Arthur R. Thompson
- “Savvy nothing,” says Uma, with a kind of disgusted air that she was good at.
- Extract from : « Island Nights' Entertainments » by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Ese he tell me you savvy, he tell me you no mind, tell me you love me too much.
- Extract from : « Island Nights' Entertainments » by Robert Louis Stevenson
- He might savvy somethin', if I ain't careful, an' kill the girl or do her harm.
- Extract from : « The Man of the Forest » by Zane Grey
- It was Hail Columbia all right, but that's between you an' I, savvy.
- Extract from : « Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist » by Alexander Berkman
- "Them boy lib for savvy what you do now, sah," he said in the coast palaver.
- Extract from : « The League of the Leopard » by Harold Bindloss
- But I'll just tell you, since you asks; it's going to stop when I get good an' ready, savvy?
- Extract from : « Hopalong Cassidy » by Clarence E. Mulford
- "Them book I got savvy—I no savvy make him tell me," he said.
- Extract from : « For Jacinta » by Harold Bindloss
Synonyms for savvy
- acumen
- acute
- astute
- awareness
- brainy
- cagey
- calculating
- canny
- clever
- comprehension
- crafty
- cunning
- discerning
- discernment
- experience
- experienced
- farsighted
- foxy
- grasp
- grip
- heady
- in the know
- ingenious
- insight
- intellect
- intelligence
- intelligent
- judgment
- judicious
- keen
- know-how
- knowing
- knowledge
- mastery
- on the ball
- perception
- perceptive
- perceptiveness
- sagacious
- sense
- sensible
- sharp
- sharpness
- slick
- sly
- smart
- smarts
- smooth
- streetwise
- understanding
- wise
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