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Calculating vs Wily - What's the difference?

calculating | wily | Synonyms |

Calculating is a synonym of wily.


As adjectives the difference between calculating and wily

is that calculating is (especially of a robot) which has the ability to calculate while wily is sly, cunning, full of tricks.

As a verb calculating

is .

calculating

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (especially of a robot) Which has the ability to calculate.
  • (especially of a person) Which serves one's own interests in an unemotional, analytical manner.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 14 , author=Steven Morris , title=Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave , work=Guardian citation , page= , passage=Following the sentencing, Knutton said: "What sort of person does something so cold and calculating ? I did not expect her to go to jail for it. I am just glad it is now all over."}}

    Verb

    (head)

    • wily

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • sly, cunning, full of tricks
    • Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it.

    Synonyms

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