1. Having or prompted by wisdom or discernment
   "a wise leader"; "a wise and perceptive comment" 
2. Marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters
   "a wise decision"
   - judicious, heady 
3. Evidencing the possession of inside information
   - knowing, wise to 
4. Improperly forward or bold
   "Don't get wise with me!"
   - fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, smart, saucy, sassy [N. Amer], lippy

1. A way of doing or being
   "in no wise"; "in this wise"

1. United States Jewish leader (born in Hungary) (1874-1949)
   - Stephen Samuel Wise 
2. United States religious leader (born in Bohemia) who united reform Jewish organizations in the United States (1819-1900)
   - Isaac Mayer Wise

Sounds like: whys, wyes

Derived forms: wises, wisest, wiser

See also: advisable, advised, all-knowing, forward, informed, omniscient, owlish, perspicacious, politic, prudent, sagacious, sage, sapient, sapiential, well-advised, wisely, wiseness

Type of: fashion, manner, mode, religious leader, style, way

Antonym: foolish

Encyclopedia: Wise, VA Wise Wise, West Virginia Wise, Virginia

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