The trick is a weird quality. It can be evaluated both one way and the other. If a trick puts on the clothes of a folk savvy, then we categorically welcome it, and if some cunning villain does an injustice, then we condemn him in every possible way. Therefore, it is time to understand the essence of the content of the adjective.
Origin
So, cunning as a quality of personality can be interpreted in two ways. On the one hand, when some good fellow fools, for example, Koshchei, then we applaud him. And if we see a cunning seller deceiving a buyer, we will not give up our hands to the first.
But believe it or not, but cunning and mind are connected. According to the etymological dictionary, the word is Slavic and comes from chytiti ("hit"). According to the dictionary, the cunning is the one who quickly grasps. Then the word acquired a figurative meaning - “smart, quick-witted”. By the way, the noun has “cunning” and the verb “abduct” one ancestor. And the verb is associated with the original meaning of “quickly grab,” that is, in the most literal sense.
Although, if you think even a little longer, it turns out that the abduction is an extremely difficult matter and there is no way to do without cunning in the modern sense. But, of course, there is no excuse for villains who trade in such things.
Value
Knowing the story helps us gain the foundation and support. But still, we must also be in a modern context. To fulfill the latter, we need an explanatory dictionary. It is in it that we will find the meaning of the word "cunning":
- Quirky, hiding his true intentions.
- Sly (in the second meaning). One that discovers latent intent or intention.
- Inventive, expert in anything.
- Intricate, sophisticated.
As we see, the object of study has two positive and negative values. Let us also give for completeness the very second meaning of the adjective "crafty" so that nothing is hidden from our eyes. Sly is "playful, full of good-natured cunning." Naturally, the evil one also has negative meanings, but we only follow the dictionary and reveal what is necessary to the reader.
Synonyms
Since the word “tricky” has many meanings, it will not hurt the change. Imagine if a person worked on several jobs. And the language is even more difficult, because there are different styles of speech, different situations. In other words, a person’s linguistic arsenal should be as rich as possible so as not to disappear in any setting. So, synonyms for the object of study:
- complicated;
- thin;
- clever;
- false;
- freaky;
- grasping;
- intricate;
- inventive.
The list, of course, did not include everything, because there are actually a lot of replacements. We do not leave synonyms covered by us for independent study. In addition, for training, the reader can compose at least five sentences with an adjective.