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perspicacious
Word definitions for perspicacious in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context figuratively English) Of acute discernment; having keen insight; mentally perceptive. 2 (context obsolete English) Able to physically see clearly; quick-sighted; sharp-sighted.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perspicacious \Per`spi*ca"cious\, a. [L. perspicax, -acis, fr. perspicere to look through: cf. F. perspicace. See Perspective .] Having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp of sight. Fig.: Of acute discernment; keen. [1913 Webster] -- Per`spi*ca"cious*ly ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, formed as an adjective to perspicacity , from Latin perspicax "sharp-sighted, having the power of seeing through; acute" (see perspicacity ). Related: Perspicaciously ; perspicaciousness .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. 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: sagacious ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a perspicacious critic EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Khrushchev may have been perspicacious enough to imagine the day when his turn would come and he would become Special Pensioner Khrushchev. ▪ Towards the end of the infantile ...
Usage examples of perspicacious.
The ideas in them are not the ideas of a reflective and perspicacious man, but simply the ideas of a mob-orator, a mouther of inanities, a bugler, a school-girl.
But to understand the Res Cogitans, that is to say our way of knowing the World, we can use only another Telescope, the same that Aristotle formerly used, and which is neither a tube nor a lens, but a Weft of Words, Perspicacious Idea, because it is only the gift of Artful Eloquence that allows us to understand this Universe.