CANNY meaning: Astute, careful, shrewd in judgment

We found 28 dictionaries that define the word canny:

General (24 matching dictionaries)

canny: Merriam-Webster
canny: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
canny: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
canny: Collins English Dictionary
canny: Vocabulary.com
Canny, canny: Wordnik
canny: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Canny, canny: Wiktionary
canny: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
canny: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
canny: Infoplease Dictionary
Canny, canny: Dictionary.com
canny: Online Etymology Dictionary
canny: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Canny: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Canny: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
canny: Rhymezone
canny: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
canny: FreeDictionary.org
canny: Mnemonic Dictionary
canny: TheFreeDictionary.com
canny: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)

canny: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
canny: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

canny: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

(Note: See cannier as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ 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.

Similar:

cagey, cagy, clever, smart, cautelous, kanny, carefool, cunnin', cankery, cleversome, more...

Opposite:

uncanny, unnatural, weird, strange

Types:

shrewd, astute, cunning, more...

Phrases:

ca' canny, ca canny, no canny, Canny edge detector, Aimee Canny, more...

Adjectives:

gay, ower, scarce, more, unco, little, picturesque

Colors:

sage green, soft lavender, muted teal, dusty rose, pale gold, more...