Usually means: More shrewd, careful, and clever.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word cannier:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. cannier: Merriam-Webster
  2. cannier: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cannier: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cannier: Vocabulary.com
  5. cannier: Wordnik
  6. cannier: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. cannier: Wiktionary
  8. cannier: Dictionary.com
  9. cannier: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. cannier: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cannier: Legal dictionary

(Note: See canny as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Canny)

adjective:  Careful, prudent, cautious.
adjective:  Knowing, shrewd, astute.
adjective:  Frugal, thrifty.
adjective:  (Scotland, Northumbria) Friendly, pleasant, fair, agreeable; (sometimes) funny.
adjective:  (Scotland, Northumbria) Gentle, quiet, steady.
adverb:  (Northumbria) Very, considerably; quite, rather.
adverb:  (Scotland, Northumbria) Gently, quietly; carefully, skilfully.
adjective:  (especially of sound) Sounding as if it is coming through a tin can.
noun:  A surname.
▸ Also see canny


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