Thesaurus
:
wily
T
hesaurus
wily
English
Adjective
Sense: full of tricks or stratagems designed to deceive
Synonyms
astute
artful
cautelous
(
obsolete
)
crafty
cunning
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
foxlike
foxy
frood
(
Scotland
,
Northern England
)
guileful
shrewd
slim
(
now South Africa
)
sly
subtle
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
tricky
vulpine
wily
Antonyms
guileless
gullible
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
honest
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
ingenuous
naive
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
unwise
Hypernyms
deceitful
intelligent
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
See also
Thesaurus:cunning
Thesaurus:intelligent
Thesaurus:learned
Thesaurus:wise
External links
“
702. cunning
” in
Roget's Thesaurus
, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
“
wily
” in
Moby Thesaurus II
, Grady Ward, 1996.