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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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