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1. The cognitive condition of someone who understands
   - understanding, apprehension, discernment

1. Get the meaning of something
   "Do you savvy the meaning of this letter?";
   - grok [N. Amer, informal], get the picture, comprehend, dig [informal], grasp, compass, apprehend

1. Marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
   - astute, sharp, shrewd, argute [literary]
    
2. Possessing sound knowledge
   "savvy readers";
   - intelligent, well-informed, clued-up [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: savvies, savvying, savviest, savvier, savvied

See also: smart, sophisticated

Type of: knowing, understand

Encyclopedia: Savvy