 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sagacious
adjective
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sagacious \Sa*ga"cious\, adjective [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.
Sagacious of his quarry from so far. --Milton.
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.
Instinct . . . makes them, many times, sagacious
above our apprehension. --Dr. H. More.
Only sagacious heads light on these observations,
and reduce them into general propositions. --Locke.
Syn: See {Shrewd}.
-- {Sa*ga"cious*ly}, adverb --
{Sa*ga"cious*ness}, noun
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
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