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Sharper

noun

1.

A professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games. Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, cardsharper, sharpie, sharpy.

Sharp

adjective

(compar. sharper; superl. sharpest)

1.

(of something seen or heard) clearly defined. Synonym: crisp. "The sharp crack of a twig" , "The crisp snap of dry leaves underfoot"

2.

Ending in a sharp point. Synonyms: acuate, acute, needlelike.

3.

Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions. Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing. "Incisive comments" , "Icy knifelike reasoning" , "As sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang" , "Penetrating insight" , "Frequent penetrative observations"

4.

Marked by practical hardheaded intelligence. Synonyms: astute, shrewd. "An astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease" , "He was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow"

5.

Harsh. Synonyms: sharp-worded, tart. "A sharp-worded exchange" , "A tart remark"

6.

Having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones. Synonym: shrill. "A shrill gaiety"

7.

Extremely steep. Synonyms: abrupt, precipitous. "The precipitous rapids of the upper river" , "The precipitous hills of Chinese paintings" , "A sharp drop"

8.

Keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point. "Sharp winds"

9.

Having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing. "A pencil with a sharp point"

10.

(of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone.

11.

Very sudden and in great amount or degree.

12.

Quick and forceful.

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"Sharper" Quotes from Famous Books

... she ordered something done or spent some money in a way that excited the astonishment of Willy Croup—the sharper-witted Betty had gone home, for, of course, Mrs. Cliff could not be expected to be able to afford her company now. But in attempting to account for these inconsiderable extravagances, Mrs. Cliff was often obliged ...

— The Adventures of Captain Horn • Frank Richard Stockton

... by a steady clicking, such as might be made by gently striking a stick against the pavement; only sharper. This lasted a minute, during which the other ...

— The Blind Spot • Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint

... country. To one as ignorant as I was of mercantile movement, the story of Colbert's methods, owing to their pure autocracy, was a kind of introductory primer to this element of sea power. Thus received, the impression was both sharper and deeper. New light was shed upon, and new emphasis given to, the commonplace assertion of the relations between commerce and a navy; civil and military sea power. While I have no claim to mastery ...

— From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life • Captain A. T. Mahan

... or injured him in some such silly way; and he had a violent animosity to the old Baron de Magny, both in his capacity of Protestant, and because the latter in some haughty mood had publicly turned his back upon him as a sharper and a spy. Perpetual quarrels were taking place between them in council; where it was only the presence of his august masters that restrained the Baron from publicly and frequently expressing the contempt which he felt for ...

— Barry Lyndon • William Makepeace Thackeray

... coast of England. That other, in the grey surtout and cocked hat, is Napoleon Bonaparte Smith, assuring France that she need apprehend no interference from him in the present alarming juncture. At that spot, where you seem to see a speck of something in motion, is an immense mass-meeting. Look sharper, and you will see a mite brandishing his mandibles in an excited manner. That is the great Mr. Soandso, defining his position amid tumultuous and irrepressible cheers. That infinitesimal creature, upon whom some score of others, as minute as he, are gazing ...

— The Biglow Papers • James Russell Lowell

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