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Definition of sagacious in English: sagaciousadjective səˈɡeɪʃəssəˈɡeɪʃəs Having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgement; wise or shrewd. they were sagacious enough to avoid any outright confrontation Example sentencesExamples - Instead of protecting his son, he is obsessed with wiping out the man who murdered his wife, despite John Rooney's sagacious observation that Mike is nothing more than a murderer himself.
- Animals civilise a building, and it is a pity that Mrs Blair, no cat-lover, was blamed for the dismissal of Humphrey, a dignified and sagacious mouser.
- If, as many true-blue Tories believe, Canadians are at heart a conservative, sagacious people in need of honest leadership, the party will find success at the polls on its own terms.
- He's buzzing with ideas, opinions and sagacious thoughts.
- John Kerry is sagacious and experienced, but he has an elitist sounding accent that will make it impossible for him to win a national campaign in the media age.
- Stanley Kubrick's sagacious adaptation of Anthony Burgess' controversial novel assaults the screen with snakes, Ludwig van, and more than a bit of the old ultra-violence.
- ‘He joined a team that was already doing well,’ the sagacious Frenchman added.
- In such a state, he persisted in the belief that Confederate victory was possible long after even the least sagacious of his advisers had accepted defeat as inevitable.
- The sagacious Hugh Hewitt explains the importance of the election.
- He was wise and sagacious, but prone to dissension and his spirit was that of calmness under fire.
- This is a profound practice performed by sagacious sannyasins especially.
- And Detective Coyle said it the best the other day in court, under oath, he was pretty sagacious, when he said the only one I can eliminate is himself.
- Paradoxically, the sagacious and shrewdly written new column entitled ‘Nightmarch’ is hidden away at the bottom of the antepenultimate page.
- But the sagacious Kerry O'Brien, well-known for his archival knowledge in such matters, did advise that there was some debate about the most reliable sources for evidence about the Australian frontier.
- Yesterday, we were amazed when the sagacious Digby praised this post from John Aravosis.
- Sharansky is not infallible, but he is probably the most sagacious voice in Israeli politics today.
- Yet the interminable self-contemplation, articulate and sagacious though it is, proves to be a bit too much of a good thing, and this gray, humorless, dispassionate novel eventually sinks under the weight of it all.
- At one point, a particularly sagacious observation was shouted out in a distinctive Texas lilt right behind me and I realized I'd been sitting two feet away from Sam the whole time without realizing it.
- Edwards is passionate and genuine, Kerry smooth and sagacious; if they simply speak naturally, and not from a list of talking points, they will persuade voters.
- Where has this sagacious highbrow been all our lives?
Synonyms wise, clever, intelligent, with/showing great knowledge, knowledgeable, sensible, sage discerning, judicious, canny, penetrating, perceptive, acute, astute, shrewd, prudent, politic, thoughtful, full of insight, insightful, percipient, perspicacious, philosophical, profound, deep informal streetwise rare sapient
Origin Early 17th century: from Latin sagax, sagac- 'wise' + -ious. Rhymes Athanasius, audacious, bodacious, cactaceous, capacious, carbonaceous, contumacious, Cretaceous, curvaceous, disputatious, edacious, efficacious, fallacious, farinaceous, flirtatious, foliaceous, fugacious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, Ignatius, loquacious, mendacious, mordacious, ostentatious, perspicacious, pertinacious, pugnacious, rapacious, salacious, saponaceous, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, spacious, tenacious, veracious, vexatious, vivacious, voracious Definition of sagacious in US English: sagaciousadjectivesəˈɡāSHəssəˈɡeɪʃəs Having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgment; shrewd. they were sagacious enough to avoid any outright confrontation Example sentencesExamples - The sagacious Hugh Hewitt explains the importance of the election.
- Animals civilise a building, and it is a pity that Mrs Blair, no cat-lover, was blamed for the dismissal of Humphrey, a dignified and sagacious mouser.
- If, as many true-blue Tories believe, Canadians are at heart a conservative, sagacious people in need of honest leadership, the party will find success at the polls on its own terms.
- John Kerry is sagacious and experienced, but he has an elitist sounding accent that will make it impossible for him to win a national campaign in the media age.
- This is a profound practice performed by sagacious sannyasins especially.
- In such a state, he persisted in the belief that Confederate victory was possible long after even the least sagacious of his advisers had accepted defeat as inevitable.
- Paradoxically, the sagacious and shrewdly written new column entitled ‘Nightmarch’ is hidden away at the bottom of the antepenultimate page.
- Sharansky is not infallible, but he is probably the most sagacious voice in Israeli politics today.
- Yesterday, we were amazed when the sagacious Digby praised this post from John Aravosis.
- He was wise and sagacious, but prone to dissension and his spirit was that of calmness under fire.
- Edwards is passionate and genuine, Kerry smooth and sagacious; if they simply speak naturally, and not from a list of talking points, they will persuade voters.
- But the sagacious Kerry O'Brien, well-known for his archival knowledge in such matters, did advise that there was some debate about the most reliable sources for evidence about the Australian frontier.
- ‘He joined a team that was already doing well,’ the sagacious Frenchman added.
- He's buzzing with ideas, opinions and sagacious thoughts.
- And Detective Coyle said it the best the other day in court, under oath, he was pretty sagacious, when he said the only one I can eliminate is himself.
- Where has this sagacious highbrow been all our lives?
- Instead of protecting his son, he is obsessed with wiping out the man who murdered his wife, despite John Rooney's sagacious observation that Mike is nothing more than a murderer himself.
- At one point, a particularly sagacious observation was shouted out in a distinctive Texas lilt right behind me and I realized I'd been sitting two feet away from Sam the whole time without realizing it.
- Stanley Kubrick's sagacious adaptation of Anthony Burgess' controversial novel assaults the screen with snakes, Ludwig van, and more than a bit of the old ultra-violence.
- Yet the interminable self-contemplation, articulate and sagacious though it is, proves to be a bit too much of a good thing, and this gray, humorless, dispassionate novel eventually sinks under the weight of it all.
Synonyms wise, clever, intelligent, showing great knowledge, with great knowledge, knowledgeable, sensible, sage
Origin Early 17th century: from Latin sagax, sagac- ‘wise’ + -ious. |