sagacious

sagacious
    adj 1: acutely insightful and wise; "much too perspicacious to
           be taken in by such a spurious argument"; "observant and
           thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions";
           "a source of valuable insights and sapient advice to
           educators" [syn: {perspicacious}, {sagacious}, {sapient}]
    2: skillful in statecraft or management; "an astute and
       sagacious statesman"
    

Sagacious \Sa*ga"cious\, a. [L. sagax, sagacis, akin to sagire
   to perceive quickly or keenly, and probably to E. seek. See
   {Seek}, and cf. {Presage}.]
   1. Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in
      following a trail.
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            Sagacious of his quarry from so far.  --Milton.
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   2. Hence, of quick intellectual perceptions; of keen
      penetration and judgment; discerning and judicious;
      knowing; far-sighted; shrewd; sage; wise; as, a sagacious
      man; a sagacious remark.
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            Instinct . . . makes them, many times, sagacious
            above our apprehension.               --Dr. H. More.
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            Only sagacious heads light on these observations,
            and reduce them into general propositions. --Locke.
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   Syn: See {Shrewd}.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Sa*ga"cious*ly}, adv. --
        {Sa*ga"cious*ness}, n.
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86 Moby Thesaurus words for "sagacious":
      acute, all-knowing, anticipant, anticipatory, apperceptive,
      appercipient, apprehending, apprehensive, argute, astute, aware,
      blase, cagey, clairvoyant, clever, cogent, cognizant, cosmopolitan,
      cosmopolite, critical, discerning, discriminating, divinatory,
      experienced, far-seeing, farseeing, farsighted, forehanded,
      foreknowing, foreseeing, foresighted, forethoughted,
      forethoughtful, gnostic, heady, incisive, insightful, intelligent,
      intuitive, judicious, knowing, knowledgeable, longheaded,
      longsighted, mature, matured, mindful, not born yesterday, old,
      omniscient, penetrating, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious,
      perspicuous, piercing, practiced, precognitive, precognizant,
      prehensile, prepared, prescient, provident, providential, prudent,
      ready, ripe, ripened, sage, sapient, savvy, seasoned, sensible,
      shrewd, smart, sophic, sophisticated, trenchant, tried,
      tried and true, understanding, veteran, wise, world-wise, worldly,
      worldly-wise