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Perspicacious   /pərspəkˈeɪʃəs/   Listen
Perspicacious

adjective
1.
Acutely insightful and wise.  Synonyms: sagacious, sapient.  "Observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions" , "A source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators"
2.
Mentally acute or penetratingly discerning.  Synonyms: clear-eyed, clear-sighted.  "Chaos could be prevented only by clear-sighted leadership" , "Much too perspicacious to be taken in by so spurious an argument"



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"Perspicacious" Quotes from Famous Books



... way that Sandy went to work to win her: his ways had been odd all his life,—so odd that it had long ago been accepted in the minds of the Charlottetown people that he would never find a woman to wed him; only now and then an unusually perspicacious person divined that the reason of his bachelorhood was not at all that women did not wish to wed him, spite of his odd ways, but that he himself found no woman exactly to ...
— Between Whiles • Helen Hunt Jackson



Words linked to "Perspicacious" :   perspicacity, wise, discerning



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