slim

Sentences
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Wat   kunnen   we   slim   bereiken ?

What can we shrewdly achieve?

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Meaning

  1. intelligent, bright
  2. clever, smart
  3. (Dutch, Eastern, dialectal) wrong, incorrect, bad

Concepts

smart
cunning
sly
clever
inconvenient
wily
difficult
crafty
hard
sneaky
pawky
arduous
astute
bright
dodgy
knowledgeable
politic
sharp
tough
needle-shaped
malign
evil
apt
wicked
prudent
cute
Synonyms

gewiekst
33k
listig
28k
uitgeslapen
37k
doortrapt
41k
moeilijk
A1
lastig
A2
sluw
C2
zwaar
A2
scherpzinnig
24k
intelligent
B2

pienter

plat
B2
stug
23k
verstandig
B2
vlak
B1
vulgair
C2
wijs
B1
ongemakkelijk
B2
beredeneerd
doordacht
C2

niet van pas komend

duidelijk
A1
fit
C1
hard
A1
klaar
A1
kloek
knap
B1
kwaadaardig
C1
loos
C1
onzacht
ordinair
C2
Translations

schlau
listig
gerieben
arglistig
astuto
zeki
rusé
gewiegt
malin
abgefeimt
schwer
ladino
ardiloso
difficile
gewitzt
Frequency

A2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/slɪm/
Etymology

Inherited from Middle Dutch
slim
Inherited from Old Dutch
*slimb
Cognate with German
German
schlimm
Cognate with English
English
slim
In summary

From Middle Dutch slim, slem, slimp, slemp, from Old Dutch *slimb, from Proto-West Germanic *slimb, from Proto-Germanic *slimbaz (“oblique, crooked”), compare German schlimm (“bad”), English slim. The semantic development in Dutch was “physically crooked” → “morally crooked” → “sly, artful” → “clever, intelligent”.

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