Cunning vs. Wise
Cunningadjective
Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
Cunningadjective
(obsolete) Skillful, artful.
Cunningadjective
(obsolete) Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious.
Cunningadjective
Cute, appealing.
Cunningnoun
Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity.
Cunningnoun
Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skillful deceit.
Cunningnoun
The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful.
Cunningnoun
The natural wit or instincts of an animal.
Cunningnoun
(obsolete) Knowledge; learning; special knowledge (sometimes implying occult or magical knowledge).
Cunningadjective
Knowing; skillful; dexterous.
Cunningadjective
Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work.
Cunningadjective
Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful.
Cunningadjective
Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy.
Cunningnoun
Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.
Cunningnoun
The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft.
Cunningnoun
shrewdness in deception;
Cunningnoun
shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
Cunningnoun
drafty artfulness (especially in deception)
Cunningadjective
attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness;
Cunningadjective
marked by skill in deception;
Cunningadjective
showing inventiveness and skill;
Wiseadjective
Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience.
Wiseadjective
Disrespectful.
Wiseadjective
(colloquial) Aware, informed.
Wiseverb
To become wise.
Wiseverb
Usually with "up", to inform or learn.
Wiseverb
(dialectal) to instruct
Wiseverb
(dialectal) to advise; induce
Wiseverb
(dialectal) to show the way, guide
Wiseverb
(dialectal) to direct the course of, pilot
Wiseverb
(dialectal) to cause to turn
Wisenoun
(archaic) Way, manner, method.
Wiseadjective
Having knowledge; knowing; enlightened; of extensive information; erudite; learned.
Wiseadjective
Hence, especially, making due use of knowledge; discerning and judging soundly concerning what is true or false, proper or improper; choosing the best ends and the best means for accomplishing them; sagacious.
Wiseadjective
Versed in art or science; skillful; dexterous; specifically, skilled in divination.
Wiseadjective
Hence, prudent; calculating; shrewd; wary; subtle; crafty.
Wiseadjective
Dictated or guided by wisdom; containing or exhibiting wisdom; well adapted to produce good effects; judicious; discreet; as, a wise saying; a wise scheme or plan; wise conduct or management; a wise determination.
Wiseadjective
Way of being or acting; manner; mode; fashion.
Wisenoun
a way of doing or being;
Wisenoun
United States Jewish leader (born in Hungary) (1874-1949)
Wisenoun
United States religious leader (born in Bohemia) who united reform Jewish organizations in the United States (1819-1900)
Wiseadjective
having or prompted by wisdom or discernment;
Wiseadjective
marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters;
Wiseadjective
evidencing the possession of inside information
Wiseadjective
able to take a broad view of negotiations between states
Wiseadjective
carefully considered;
