What does the word streetwise mean?
and it is a good thing?
Answers:
From the American Heritage Dictionary:
Having the shrewd awareness, experience, and resourcefulness needed for survival in a difficult, often dangerous urban environment.
It is a good thing-it is how to conduct yourself in a way that you aren't attacked or looked at as an easy target on the streets.
YOU'VE HAVE EXPERINECE IN THE MATTER. YOU HAVE LIVED A LIFE KNOWING MORE ABOUT HOW THE WORLD WORKS.
It means you have learned lessons in/from life.
Sometimes it is good for survival, sometimes bad due to learning how to steal, lie, cheat.
If you need to ask you're not. It means savvy, able to cope with the real world rather than theory or academic things. It means being able to spot trouble and cope with it etc.
knowledge of how to survive "in the street" (real world) as opposed to book learning/academia.
To live and survive on the streets.ie, Living rough.
Don´t fancy it my self.
to me that word means where all the cleanest homeless shelters are or where to get crack(lol) to me it does not mean anything positive, i would prefer to be wise in things that really matter in life, worldly, academic,enriching subjects.
Streetwise means you are capable of handling yourself in situations that aren't taught in formal education. I prefer to call it as being intuitive and savvy enough to get out of difficult situations.
to be streetwise is to know about things in life in general you
get to know these things talking and meeting with other
people
street wise means: one who is knows human behavior and peoples different approaches and manerisms out in public.
very wise
There are two words actuallywhich mean almost the same thing:
STREETWISE, STREETSMART.
Both of them mean:
Streetwise, streetsmart: (adj) .
streetwise, street smart is having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment,
Is it a good thing?
Yes, it is as having anything for survival needs to be GOOD!
Sometimes people confuse this expression with over-smartness, pulling a fast one on others.
But it is not the expression's / word's mistake or fault !
Got it?
SOURCE:
<http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?.
>
having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment
having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment or Streetwise has a number of different meanings:*wisdom in a particular subject;*knowledge of youth culture, also called Street;*practical knowledge, as opposed to ivory tower or bookish knowledge, knowledge on how to succeed through life, or generally how to avoid the pitfalls;*it can be used in a euphemistic sense to refer to stupidity.
it means you know how to look after yourself in your neighbourhood people respect you.
survivor in the Jungle
It means that you are not nieve to the ways of the world. You have the ability to look after yourself physically and emotionally.
It can mean several things - but the true meaning is to be knowledgeable in the big wide world - been there done that sort of thing - its a good thing as we are constantly learning to be steetwise - mucker
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Answers:
From the American Heritage Dictionary:
Having the shrewd awareness, experience, and resourcefulness needed for survival in a difficult, often dangerous urban environment.
It is a good thing-it is how to conduct yourself in a way that you aren't attacked or looked at as an easy target on the streets.
YOU'VE HAVE EXPERINECE IN THE MATTER. YOU HAVE LIVED A LIFE KNOWING MORE ABOUT HOW THE WORLD WORKS.
It means you have learned lessons in/from life.
Sometimes it is good for survival, sometimes bad due to learning how to steal, lie, cheat.
If you need to ask you're not. It means savvy, able to cope with the real world rather than theory or academic things. It means being able to spot trouble and cope with it etc.
knowledge of how to survive "in the street" (real world) as opposed to book learning/academia.
To live and survive on the streets.ie, Living rough.
Don´t fancy it my self.
to me that word means where all the cleanest homeless shelters are or where to get crack(lol) to me it does not mean anything positive, i would prefer to be wise in things that really matter in life, worldly, academic,enriching subjects.
Streetwise means you are capable of handling yourself in situations that aren't taught in formal education. I prefer to call it as being intuitive and savvy enough to get out of difficult situations.
to be streetwise is to know about things in life in general you
get to know these things talking and meeting with other
people
street wise means: one who is knows human behavior and peoples different approaches and manerisms out in public.
very wise
There are two words actuallywhich mean almost the same thing:
STREETWISE, STREETSMART.
Both of them mean:
Streetwise, streetsmart: (adj) .
streetwise, street smart is having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment,
Is it a good thing?
Yes, it is as having anything for survival needs to be GOOD!
Sometimes people confuse this expression with over-smartness, pulling a fast one on others.
But it is not the expression's / word's mistake or fault !
Got it?
SOURCE:
<http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?.
>
having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment
having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment or Streetwise has a number of different meanings:*wisdom in a particular subject;*knowledge of youth culture, also called Street;*practical knowledge, as opposed to ivory tower or bookish knowledge, knowledge on how to succeed through life, or generally how to avoid the pitfalls;*it can be used in a euphemistic sense to refer to stupidity.
it means you know how to look after yourself in your neighbourhood people respect you.
survivor in the Jungle
It means that you are not nieve to the ways of the world. You have the ability to look after yourself physically and emotionally.
It can mean several things - but the true meaning is to be knowledgeable in the big wide world - been there done that sort of thing - its a good thing as we are constantly learning to be steetwise - mucker
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