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crafty

adj
/ˈkɹæfti/US/ˈkɹɑːfti/UK

Etymology

From Middle English crafty, crefty, craftiȝ, from Old English cræftiġ (“ingenious; skilful; crafty; cunning; virtuous; powerful”), from Proto-West Germanic *kraftag, *kraftīg, *kraftug, from Proto-Germanic *kraftugaz (“powerful”), equivalent to craft + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian kräftich, krääftig, West Frisian krêftich, Dutch krachtig, German Low German krachtig, German kräftig.

  1. inherited from *kraftugaz✻ — “powerful”
  2. inherited from *kraftag✻
  3. inherited from cræftiġ — “ingenious; skilful; crafty; cunning; virtuous; powerful”
  4. inherited from crafty

Definitions

  1. Skillful at deceiving others.

    • For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
    • Glaucon will play devil's advocate (358c-d, thereby showing himself craftier than Thrasymachus, who is so unsly as to declare himself a wolf, openly, before the sheep; […])

  2. Sneaky

    Sneaky; surreptitious.

    • I took a crafty look at his hand of cards while he was out of the room.

  3. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill

    Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Possessing dexterity

      Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful.

    2. Magical or occult, or allegedly so.

      • a crafty science

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at crafty. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01crafty02skill03learned04knowledgeable05well-informed06knowledge07knowing08shrewd09cunning

A definitional loop anchored at crafty. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at crafty

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA