Experienced vs Shrewd - What's the difference?
experienced | shrewd |
Having experience and skill in a subject.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 Experient.
showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters
artful, tricky or cunning
streetwise
*
knowledgeable
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=November 10
, author=Jeremy Wilson
, title=tEngland Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report
, work=Telegraph
(archaic) Scolding, satirical, sharp.
* 1599 ,
As adjectives the difference between experienced and shrewd
is that experienced is having experience and skill in a subject while shrewd is showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters.As a verb experienced
is .experienced
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}
Antonyms
* inexperienced * greenVerb
(head)shrewd
English
Adjective
(er)citation, page= , passage=The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott. }}
- LEONATO. By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.