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Perspicacious   Listen
adjective
Perspicacious  adj.  
1.
Having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp of sight.
2.
Fig.: Of acute discernment; keen.





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"Perspicacious" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Unbegotten! earth-devourer! ever young! perspicacious! honoured at Epidaurus! good for men! who cured King Ptolemy, the soldiers of Moses, and ...
— The Temptation of St. Antony - or A Revelation of the Soul • Gustave Flaubert
... the ragdealer, who took this fiction for historic truth, was always perspicacious and just, revelatory of an instinct for reasoning and common sense. The man's realistic criticism was not always to Manuel's taste, and at times the boy would make bold to defend a romantic, immoral thesis. ...
— The Quest • Pio Baroja
... shed upon him, his Administration would have been too bland for human belief, and life for him would have palled. For his inexhaustible energy hungered for action. As soon as his judgment convinced him that a thing ought to be done he set about doing it. Recently, I asked one of the most perspicacious members of his Cabinet, "What do you consider Theodore's dominant trait" He thought for a while, and then replied, "Combativeness." No doubt the public also, at least while Roosevelt was in office, thought ...
— Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography, • William Roscoe Thayer


Words linked to "Perspicacious" :   sapient, clear-eyed, perspicaciousness, discerning


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