Too clever by half in Hindi — Meaning of ज़रूरत से ज़्यादा चालाक (jarurat se jayada chalak)

📖 Meaning of “too clever by half”

The meaning of “too clever by half” in Hindi is ज़रूरत से ज़्यादा चालाक, pronounced jarurat se jayada chalak — it is a noun. Copy the Devanagari word above, hear how it is pronounced, and use it anywhere. To type words like this yourself, try our Hindi typing tool, or explore more words in the vocabulary sets.

📘 Definition of too clever by half

Shrewd but flawed by overthinking or excessive complexity, with a resulting tendency to be unreliable or unsuccessful.

✍️ Too clever by half in a sentence

The poor devil was too clever by half, and made a big mistake for each of his strokes of genius.

वह हमेशा ज़रूरत से ज़्यादा चालाक समझता है, लेकिन मामूली ग़लतियाँ कर देता है।

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Word (English)

Too clever by half

Meaning in Hindi

ज़रूरत से ज़्यादा चालाक

Pronunciation

jarurat se jayada chalak

Part of speech

Noun

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The Hindi meaning of "too clever by half" is ज़रूरत से ज़्यादा चालाक (jarurat se jayada chalak).

In Devanagari script it is written as ज़रूरत से ज़्यादा चालाक.

It is pronounced "jarurat se jayada chalak". Tap the speaker icon on this page to hear it aloud.

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