sagacious meaning
UK US
sagacious (adjective): acutely insightful and wise.
sagacious has 2 meanings in this dictionary.
sagacious as an adjective
- 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
Synonyms: perspicacious, sapient
Similar: wise
Related forms: sagaciousness
- skillful in statecraft or management
- an astute and sagacious statesman
Similar: politic
Related forms: sagaciousness, sagacity
sagacious in a sentence
- He was never short of a sagacious saying or two, that Confucius!
- A sagacious activist would have pointed out the assumptions underlying those loaded questions.
Scrabble score: 12 (letter breakdown)
Word lists: words starting with SA · words ending in US · 9-letter words
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