Sagacious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}, {sapient}]
       2: skillful in statecraft or management; "an astute and
          sagacious statesman"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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