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Cleverly vs Smartly - What's the difference?

cleverly | smartly | Synonyms |

As adverbs the difference between cleverly and smartly

is that cleverly is wittily; in a tricky manner while smartly is in a smart manner.

As a proper noun Cleverly

is {{surname|lang=en}.

cleverly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • Wittily; in a tricky manner.
    • He joked cleverly with each guest.
  • Intelligently directed to a purpose.
    • Cleverly , he found ways of ingratiating himself with all the important guests.
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 13 , author=Andrew Benson , title=Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The double world champion quickly closed on to the rear of the Williams, but Maldonado drove cleverly to ensure he was always far enough ahead at the start of the pit straight to ensure Alonso could not pass him.}}
  • Completely, fully.
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 6:
  • *:“I ain't a-goin' ter let leetle Mose be kep' up hyar till midnight a-waitin' for you-uns ter milk the cow. It's cleverly dark now.”
    • English manner adverbs English act-related adverbs

    smartly

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In a smart manner.
  • :
  • Quickly.
  • *
  • *:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
  • Intelligently.