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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
perspicacious
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 period the child is becoming more perspicacious.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perspicacious

Perspicacious \Per`spi*ca"cious\, a. [L. perspicax, -acis, fr. perspicere to look through: cf. F. perspicace. See Perspective.]

  1. Having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp of sight.

  2. Fig.: Of acute discernment; keen. [1913 Webster] -- Per`spi*ca"cious*ly, adv. -- Per`spi*ca"cious*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
perspicacious

1630s, formed as an adjective to perspicacity, from Latin perspicax "sharp-sighted, having the power of seeing through; acute" (see perspicacity). Related: Perspicaciously; perspicaciousness.

Wiktionary
perspicacious

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.

WordNet
perspicacious

  1. 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, sapient]

  2. mentally acute or penetratingly discerning; "too clear-eyed not to see what problems would follow"; "chaos could be prevented only by clear-sighted leadership"; "much too perspicacious to be taken in by so spurious an argument" [syn: clear-eyed, clear-sighted]

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.