Word Meanings - SAPIENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Wise; sage; discerning; -- often in irony or contempt. Where the sapient king Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse. Milton. Syn. -- Sage; sagacious; knowing; wise; discerning.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SAPIENT)

• Sagacious
• Intelligent
• discriminating
• acute
• wise
• prudent
• foreseeing
• shrewd
• penetrating
• sapient

Related words: (words related to SAPIENT)

• FORESEE
  1. To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow. A prudent man foreseeth the evil. Prov. xxii. 3. 2. To provide. Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life. Bacon.
• ACUTE-ANGLED
  Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle.
• INTELLIGENTIAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the intelligence; exercising or implying understanding; intellectual. "With act intelligential." Milton. 2. Consisting of unembodied mind; incorporeal. Food alike those pure Intelligential substances require. Milton.
• DISCRIMINATENESS
  The state of being discriminated; distinctness.
• ACUTE
  Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease. Acute angle , an angle less than a right angle. Syn. -- Subtile; ingenious; sharp; keen; penetrating; sagacious; sharp-
• INTELLIGENTIARY
  One who gives information; an intelligencer. Holinshed.
• SAPIENTLY
  In a sapient manner.
• SAPIENTIZE
  To make sapient. Coleridge.
• INTELLIGENTLY
  In an intelligent manner; with intelligence.
• DISCRIMINATOR
  One who discriminates.
• PENETRATING
  1. Having the power of entering, piercing, or pervading; sharp; subtile; penetrative; as, a penetrating odor. 2. Acute; discerning; sagacious; quick to discover; as, a penetrating mind.
• SAPIENT
  Wise; sage; discerning; -- often in irony or contempt. Where the sapient king Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse. Milton. Syn. -- Sage; sagacious; knowing; wise; discerning.
• SAPIENTIOUS
  Sapiential.
• PRUDENT
  1. Sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct; practically wise; judicious; careful; discreet; sensible; -- opposed to rash; as, a prudent man; dictated or directed by prudence or
• DISCRIMINATELY
  In a discriminating manner; distinctly.
• PENETRATE
  akin to penitus inward, inwardly, and perh. to pens with, in the 1. To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness. 2. To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to
• DISCRIMINATE
  Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens. Bacon. (more info) divide, separate, fr. discrimen division, distinction, decision, fr.
• ACUTENESS
  Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis. Syn. -- Penetration; sagacity; keenness; ingenuity; shrewdness; subtlety; sharp-wittedness. (more info) 1. The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle.
• PRUDENTIAL
  1. Proceeding from, or dictated or characterized by, prudence; prudent; discreet; sometimes, selfish or pecuniary as distinguished from higher motives or influences; as, prudential motives. " A prudential line of conduct." Sir W. Scott.
• PRUDENTIALIST
  One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives. Coleridge.
• INTERPENETRATE
  To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.
• UNFORESEE
  To fail to foresee. Bp. Hacket.
• IMPRUDENT
  Not prudent; wanting in prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not attentive to consequence; improper. -- Im*pru"dent*ly, adv. Her majesty took a great dislike at the imprudent behavior of many of the ministers and readers. Strype. Syn.
• PERACUTE
  Very sharp; very violent; as, a peracute fever. Harvey.
• JURISPRUDENT
  Understanding law; skilled in jurisprudence. G. West.
• UNPRUDENTIAL
  Imprudent. "The most unwise and unprudential act." Milton.