English-Thai Dictionary

artful

ADJ ฉลาด  เก่ง  มี ทักษะ  ชำนาญ  clever skillful cha-lad

 

artful

ADJ มี เล่ห์เหลี่ยม  เต็มไปด้วย เล่ห์  crafty me-lea-liam

 

artfulness

N ความ มี ทักษะ  art craft khwam-mee-thak-sa

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ARTFUL

a.[See Art. ] 1. Performed with art or skill.
2. Artificial, as opposed to natural
3. Cunning; practicing art, or stratagem; crafty; as an artful boy. [This is the most usual sense. ]
4. Proceeding from art or craft; as an artful scheme.

 

ARTFULLY

adv. With art, or cunning; skillfully; dexterously.

 

ARTFULNESS

n.Art; craft; cunning; address.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ARTFUL

Art "ful, a. Etym: [From Art. ]

 

1. Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill. [Archaic ] "Artful strains." "Artful terms. " Milton.

 

2. Artificial; imitative. Addison.

 

3. Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful. He [was ] too artful a writer to set down events in exact historical order. Dryden.

 

4. Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty; as, an artful boy. [The usual sense. ] Artful in speech, in action, and in mind. Pope. The artful revenge of various animals. Darwin.

 

Syn. -- Cunning; skillful; adroit; dexterous; crafty; tricky; deceitful; designing. See Cunning.

 

ARTFULLY

ARTFULLY Art "ful *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In an artful manner; with art or cunning; skillfully; dexterously; craftily.

 

ARTFULNESS

ARTFULNESS Art "ful *ness, n.

 

Defn: The quality of being artful; art; cunning; craft.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

artful

art ful |ˈärtfəl ˈɑrtfəl | ▶adjective 1 (of a person or action ) clever or skillful, typically in a crafty or cunning way: her artful wiles. 2 showing creative skill or taste: an artful photograph of a striking woman. DERIVATIVES art ful ly adverb, art ful ness noun

 

Oxford Dictionary

artful

art ¦ful |ˈɑːtfʊl, -f (ə )l | ▶adjective 1 clever or skilful, especially in a crafty or cunning way: her artful wiles. 2 showing creative skill or taste: an artful photograph of a striking woman. DERIVATIVES artfully adverb, artfulness noun

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

artful

artful adjective 1 artful politicians: sly, crafty, cunning, wily, scheming, devious, Machiavellian, sneaky, tricky, conniving, designing, calculating; canny, shrewd; deceitful, duplicitous, disingenuous, underhanded; informal foxy, shifty; archaic subtle. ANTONYMS ingenuous. 2 artful precision: skillful, clever, adept, adroit, skilled, expert.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

artful

artful adjective an artful political ruse: sly, crafty, cunning, wily, scheming, devious, Machiavellian, sneaky, guileful, tricky, conniving, designing, calculating; shrewd, astute, sharp-witted, sharp, acute, intelligent, clever, alert, canny; deceitful, deceptive, duplicitous, cheating, dishonest, disingenuous, underhand, untrustworthy, unscrupulous, double-dealing; informal dirty, foxy, shifty, smart; Brit. informal fly; Austral. /NZ informal shonky; S. African informal slim; rare vulpine, carny, subtle. ANTONYMS ingenuous, honest, dull.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

artful

art ful /ɑ́ː r tf (ə )l /形容詞 〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗1 狡猾 （こうかつ ）な, ずるい 〈人 やり方など 〉(cunning ).2 巧妙な, 技巧的な 〈配列など 〉(↔artless ).～ly 副詞 巧妙に ; 狡猾に .