savvy

The word “savvy” has 2 syllables: sav-vy

It's pronounced as /ˈsæv.i/


What is synonym and antonym for savvy?

In the thesaurus, “savvy” has 131 synonyms and 77 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for savvy along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for savvy

  • absorb
  • acquaintance
  • acumen
  • acute
  • agile
  • alert
  • appreciate
  • apprehend
  • apt
  • artful
  • assimilate
  • astute
  • awareness
  • background
  • behold
  • brainy
  • bright
  • brilliant
  • cagey
  • cagy
  • calculating
  • canny
  • catch
  • chops
  • clear-eyed
  • clear-sighted
  • clever
  • cognize
  • command
  • compass
  • comprehend
  • comprehension
  • conceive
  • conversance
  • crafty
  • cunning
  • decipher
  • decode
  • devious
  • dig
  • digest
  • discern
  • discerning
  • discernment
  • discriminating
  • discriminative
  • dodgy
  • experience
  • experienced
  • expertise
  • familiarity
  • farsighted
  • fathom
  • foxy
  • get
  • grasp
  • grip
  • grok
  • guileful
  • hard-boiled
  • hardheaded
  • heady
  • in the know
  • ingenious
  • insight
  • insightful
  • intellect
  • intelligence
  • intelligent
  • intimacy
  • intuit
  • judgment
  • judicious
  • keen
  • know
  • know-how
  • knowing
  • knowledge
  • make
  • make out
  • mastery
  • moxie
  • nimble
  • on the ball
  • pawky
  • penetrate
  • perceive
  • perception
  • perceptive
  • perceptiveness
  • percipient
  • perspicacious
  • pick up on
  • pierce
  • proficiency
  • quick
  • quick-witted
  • realize
  • recognize
  • register
  • resourceful
  • sagacious
  • sage
  • sapient
  • scheming
  • see
  • seize
  • sense
  • sensible
  • sharp
  • sharp-eyed
  • sharp-sighted
  • sharp-witted
  • sharpness
  • shrewd
  • skills
  • slick
  • sly
  • smart
  • smarts
  • smooth
  • streetwise
  • subtle
  • take in
  • tricky
  • twig
  • understand
  • understanding
  • veteran
  • wily
  • wise

Antonyms for savvy

  • airheaded
  • artless
  • birdbrained
  • blunt
  • brain-dead
  • brainless
  • coarse
  • dense
  • dim-witted
  • dopey
  • dopy
  • dull
  • dumb
  • empty-headed
  • exploitable
  • feebleminded
  • foolish
  • gormless
  • guileless
  • gullable
  • gullible
  • half-witted
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ignorance
  • ignorant
  • imbecile
  • imbecilic
  • inability
  • ineptness
  • inexperience
  • inexperienced
  • ingenuous
  • innocent
  • kind
  • knuckleheaded
  • lamebrain
  • lamebrained
  • lunkheaded
  • misapprehend
  • misconceive
  • misconception
  • misconstrue
  • misinterpret
  • misinterpretation
  • misperceive
  • misread
  • miss
  • mistake
  • misunderstand
  • misunderstanding
  • moronic
  • naive
  • obtuse
  • release
  • rough
  • silly
  • simple
  • slow
  • slow-witted
  • softheaded
  • stupid
  • stupidity
  • thick-witted
  • thickheaded
  • thoughtless
  • unawareness
  • unclever
  • unfamiliarity
  • uninformed
  • unintelligent
  • unknowing
  • unperceptive
  • unstylish
  • unwise
  • weak-minded
  • witless

Meanings of savvy

  • noun
    1. Shrewdness.
  • verb
    1. To understand.
  • adjective
    1. Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.

Example Sentences

  • She is very savvy when it comes to managing her finances.
  • His savvy negotiation skills helped him close the deal.
  • You need to be more savvy about online security.
  • The young entrepreneur showed a savvy understanding of the market.
  • He gave some savvy advice on how to invest wisely.

On this page you'll find 208 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to savvy, such as: absorb, acquaintance, acumen, acute, agile, airheaded, alert.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

ability

  • address
  • adequacy
  • adroitness
  • aptitude
  • aptness
  • bent
  • capability
  • capableness
  • capacity
  • cleverness
  • command
  • competence
  • competency
  • comprehension
  • craft
  • deftness
  • dexterity
  • effectiveness
  • effectualness
  • endowment
  • equipment
  • expertise
  • expertness
  • facility
  • faculty
  • finesse
  • fitness
  • flair
  • form
  • genius
  • gift
  • gray matter
  • hand
  • handiness
  • influence
  • ingenuity
  • instinct
  • intelligence
  • ken
  • knack
  • know-how
  • mastery
  • means
  • might
  • mind for
  • particular activity adeptness
  • potency
  • potentiality
  • proficiency
  • prowess
  • puissance
  • qualification
  • reason
  • resourcefulness
  • resources
  • savvy
  • skill
  • skillfulness
  • staying power
  • strength
  • stuff
  • talent
  • the goods
  • the right stuff
  • understanding
  • usefulness
  • what it takes
  • wherewithal

able

  • accomplished
  • ace
  • adept
  • adequate
  • adroit
  • all-around
  • all-round
  • allowed
  • apt
  • capable
  • clever
  • competent
  • effective
  • empowered
  • enabled
  • equal
  • equal to
  • equipped
  • experienced
  • expert
  • facile
  • fit
  • free
  • good
  • in a position to
  • know the ropes
  • master
  • masterful
  • masterly
  • on the ball
  • overqualified
  • practiced
  • practised
  • prepared
  • proficient
  • protean
  • qualified
  • ready
  • savvy
  • schooled
  • seasoned
  • skilled
  • skillful
  • smart
  • suitable
  • suited
  • talented
  • trained
  • up to it
  • up to snuff
  • versatile
  • veteran
  • willing

accomplished

  • able
  • absolute
  • ace
  • aced
  • achieved
  • actualized
  • adept
  • adroit
  • all-around
  • all-round
  • attained
  • bourgeois
  • brainy
  • brought about
  • brought off
  • capable
  • carried off
  • carried out
  • cerebral
  • certain
  • civil
  • civilized
  • clear
  • clever
  • committed
  • compassed
  • competent
  • compleat
  • complete
  • completed
  • conclusive
  • consummate
  • cool
  • cosmopolitan
  • courteous
  • couth
  • crack
  • crackerjack
  • cultivated
  • cultured
  • decisive
  • definite
  • deft
  • dexterous
  • dextrous
  • did
  • educated
  • effected
  • effective
  • effectual
  • effectuated
  • efficient
  • employable
  • ended
  • erudite
  • executed
  • experienced
  • expert
  • finished
  • fit
  • fitted
  • fulfilled
  • genteel
  • gifted
  • good
  • great
  • habile
  • hands-down
  • handy
  • hep
  • high-toned
  • highbrow
  • highbrowed
  • hip
  • hypercivilized
  • implemented
  • inarguable
  • incontestable
  • incontrovertible
  • indisputable
  • indubitable
  • intellectual
  • intellectualist
  • intellectualistic
  • irrefragable
  • irrefutable
  • knowledgeable
  • learned
  • literate
  • long-term
  • made
  • mannerly
  • master
  • masterful
  • masterly
  • middlebrow
  • multiskilled
  • multitalented
  • nailed
  • negotiated
  • old
  • overcivilized
  • oversophisticated
  • performed
  • perpetrated
  • polished
  • polite
  • positive
  • practiced
  • practised
  • professed
  • proficient
  • prosecuted
  • pulled off
  • put through
  • qualified
  • realized
  • reduplicated
  • reenacted
  • refined
  • repeated
  • savvy
  • scholarly
  • schooled
  • sharp
  • skilled
  • skillful
  • slick
  • sophisticated
  • sure
  • sure-handed
  • talented
  • taught
  • trained
  • tutored
  • unambiguous
  • unanswerable
  • unarguable
  • unchallengeable
  • uncontested
  • uncontradicted
  • undeniable
  • undisputed
  • unequivocal
  • unquestionable
  • unquestioned
  • urbane
  • versed
  • veteran
  • virtuoso
  • well-bred
  • well-read
  • well-rounded
  • went through
  • winded up
  • wised up
  • with it
  • workmanlike
  • wound up

cageyness

  • acumen
  • art
  • artfulness
  • artifice
  • astuteness
  • bettering
  • calculation
  • canniness
  • care
  • clear-sightedness
  • cleverness
  • competition
  • competitive advantage
  • competitive edge
  • contrivance
  • craft
  • craftiness
  • cunning
  • cunningness
  • cutthroat
  • deceitfulness
  • design
  • deviousness
  • discernment
  • disingenuity
  • duplicity
  • ease
  • facility
  • finesse
  • foxiness
  • gamesmanship
  • gray matter
  • guile
  • guilefulness
  • hardheadedness
  • ingeniousness
  • ingenuity
  • insight
  • intellect
  • intelligence
  • inventiveness
  • keenness
  • knowingness
  • outfoxing
  • outsmarting
  • outwitting
  • perception
  • perceptiveness
  • perceptivity
  • percipience
  • reason
  • rivaling
  • ruse
  • sagaciousness
  • sagacity
  • sageness
  • sapience
  • savvy
  • sense
  • sharpness
  • shiftiness
  • shrewdness
  • slickness
  • slyness
  • sneakiness
  • stratagem
  • strategy
  • subterfuge
  • subtleness
  • subtlety
  • trickery
  • underhandedness
  • wiles
  • wiliness
  • wisdom
  • wit

caginess

  • acumen
  • artfulness
  • artifice
  • astuteness
  • calculation
  • canniness
  • care
  • chicanery
  • clear-sightedness
  • cleverness
  • craft
  • craftiness
  • cunning
  • cunningness
  • deceitfulness
  • design
  • deviousness
  • discernment
  • duplicity
  • ease
  • facility
  • finesse
  • foxiness
  • gray matter
  • guile
  • guilefulness
  • hardheadedness
  • ingeniousness
  • ingenuity
  • insight
  • intellect
  • intelligence
  • inventiveness
  • keenness
  • knowingness
  • perception
  • perceptiveness
  • perceptivity
  • percipience
  • reason
  • sagaciousness
  • sagacity
  • sageness
  • sapience
  • savvy
  • sense
  • sharpness
  • shiftiness
  • shrewdness
  • slickness
  • slyness
  • sneakiness
  • subtleness
  • subtlety
  • trickery
  • trickiness
  • underhandedness
  • wiliness
  • wisdom
  • wit

Browse the Thesaurus