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UK
/pəspɪkˈeɪʃəs/
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[ US /pɝspəˈkeɪʃəs/ ]
[ US /pɝspəˈkeɪʃəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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acutely insightful and wise
a source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators
observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions
much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument -
mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
too clear-eyed not to see what problems would follow
much too perspicacious to be taken in by so spurious an argument
chaos could be prevented only by clear-sighted leadership
How To Use perspicacious In A Sentence
- I sometimes wish GUD didn't publish adult-leaning content so that we could more easily market to perspicacious YA -- but at least in puritanical-US, that would be litigiously dangerous. MIND MELD: If You Could Change Any Aspect of The Science Fiction Field, What Would it Be?
- A colleague at one of the service providers that we cover told me a few months ago that I was perspicacious.
- Even more likely, it could be deliberate misdirection, a Nabokovian wink the author shares with the reader perspicacious enough to call his bluff.
- He has written the most complete, perspicacious, and moving book that has been published to date on the Francoist repression.
- The perspicacious observer may have noticed that most of my hobbyist ventures into the graphic arts are abstract or non-representational.
- She could tell, perspicacious as she was, that Harriet was dying to tell her something but needed the information to be directly elicited.
- The author of the newsletter was a perspicacious young lass.
- Would the webmaster like to comment on why my posting in this thread, which I considered to be insightful and perspicacious, was deleted?
- I was just wondering if maybe my perspicacious words had finally ruffled the princess's feathers.
- This former town librarian was perspicacious in acquiring paintings by Jack B. Yeats and his circle.
