Clever
Clever adjective - Showing a noteworthy use of the imagination and creativity especially in inventing.
Usage example: an inventor who was constantly coming up with clever devices for doing everyday chores
Useful and clever are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Useful" instead an adjective "Clever".
Nearby Words: cleverness, cleverly
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- While the occasional adult is pretty dense, most of them know enough to listen to the kids who have a tendency to come up with clever and useful solutions to the problem at hand.
Source: Adults Are Useless - One thing about Cow Tools is that it can be useful for hiding a clever Chekhov's Gun among them.
Source: Cow Tools -
What's clever is that when Sentinel first came to Earth, there was a snow-storm, he didn't stand out and his alt mode was very useful.
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