Artful: Definition and part of speech

Artful

  1. a. Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty; as, an artful boy. [The usual sense.]
  2. a. Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill.
  3. a. Artificial; imitative.
  4. a. Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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