Word Meanings - SAGACIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

quickly or keenly, and probably to E. seek. See Seek, and cf. 1. Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail. Sagacious of his quarry from so far. Milton. 2. Hence, of quick intellectual perceptions; of keen penetration

Additional info about word: SAGACIOUS

quickly or keenly, and probably to E. seek. See Seek, and cf. 1. Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail. Sagacious of his quarry from so far. Milton. 2. Hence, of quick intellectual perceptions; of keen penetration and judgment; discerning and judicious; knowing; far-sighted; shrewd; sage; wise; as, a sagacious man; a sagacious remark. Instinct . . . makes them, many times, sagacious above our apprehension. Dr. H. More. Only sagacious heads light on these observations, and reduce them into general propositions. Locke. Syn. -- See Shrewd. -- Sa*ga"cious*ly, adv. -- Sa-ga"cious*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SAGACIOUS)

• Acute
• Pointed
• penetrating
• sagacious
• perspicacious
• keen
• astute
• piercing
• sharp
• shrewd
• keen-sighted
• severe
• distressing
• Astute
• Crafty
• knowing
• discriminating
• acute
• discerning
• Calculating
• Wary
• cautious
• circumspect
• careful
• farsighted
• guarded
• Deep
• Profound
• subterranean
• submerged
• designing
• abstruse
• recondite
• learned
• low
• thick
• obscure
• mysterious
• occult
• Intense
• heartfelt
• Diplomatic
• Judicious
• wise
• prudent
• well-contrived
• clever
• politic
• discreet
• well-planned
• well-conceived
• well-managed

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SAGACIOUS)

• Reveal
• make known
• discover

Related words: (words related to SAGACIOUS)

• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• KNOWINGLY
  1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype. 2. By experience. Shak.
• OCCULTISM
  A certain Oriental system of theosophy. A. P. Sinnett.
• DISCERNANCE
  Discernment.
• GUARDIAN
  One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• DIPLOMATIC
  A minister, official agent, or envoy to a foreign court; a diplomatist.
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• CRAFTY
  1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. "Crafty work." Piers Plowman. 2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif. 3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
• CIRCUMSPECTNESS
  Vigilance un guarding against evil from every quarter; caution. forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton.
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• OCCULT
  Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown. It is of an occult kind, and is so insensible in its advances as to escape observation. I. Taylor. Occult line , a line drawn as a part of the construction of a figure
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• GUARDIANESS
  A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• ASTUTE
  Critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty. Syn. -- Keen; eagle-eyed; penetrating; skilled; discriminating; cunning; sagacious; subtle; wily; crafty. As*tute"ly, adv. -- As*tute"ness, n.
• KNOWINGNESS
  The state or quality of being knowing or intelligent; shrewdness; skillfulness.
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• INTERPENETRATE
  To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.