Wily vs Intelligent - What's the difference?
wily | intelligent | Related terms |
sly, cunning, full of tricks
Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
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Characterized by thoughtful interaction.
Having the same level of brain power as mankind.
Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability.
Wily is a related term of intelligent.
As adjectives the difference between wily and intelligent
is that wily is sly, cunning, full of tricks while intelligent is of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.wily
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it.
Synonyms
* See alsointelligent
English
Alternative forms
* entelligentAdjective
(en-adj)F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”}}