savvy
noun[U]
informaluk/ˈsæv.i/us/ˈsæv.i/practicalknowledgeandability:
常识;实际能力businesssavvy专业知识
She's veryintelligent, but hasn't got much savvy.
Intelligence
- acuity
- acumen
- agility
- apt
- aptness
- grey matter
- gumption
- highbrow
- horse sense
- imaginative
- penetrating
- perceptive
- percipient
- perspicacious
- perspicacity
- presence of mind
- profundity
- quick-witted
- ready
- subtlety
savvy
adjective
informaluk/ˈsæv.i/us/ˈsæv.i/comparativesavvier|superlativesavviesthaving orshowingpracticalknowledgeandexperience:
Teenagers are savvier abouthandlingtheirdigitalinformationthanadults.
Hedazzledthecountryas amodern, media-savvypolitician.
- Like all savvy New Yorkers, heknowsthe subway's thebestway tobeatthetraffic.
- Children today are much savvier than they used to be.
- Many savvyconsumersexpectdiscountedprices.
- She hasshownherself to bepoliticallysavvy.
Knowledge and awareness
- acquaintance
- alertness
- as every schoolboy/schoolchild knowsidiom
- astuteness
- at/in the back ofyourmindidiom
- firsthand
- general knowledge
- gnostic
- grounding
- have a nodding acquaintance withsomeone/somethingidiom
- lived experience
- metacognition
- nescience
- nescient
- nod
- offsomeone'sradaridiom
- sensibility
- street smarts
- theory of mind
- witting