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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
- Regardless of the fact that you don't know what the word perspicacious means, you continue to amaze me. Yahoo! Sports - Top News
- Well, I shall now offer a balanced view based on the facts before me: I find your attempts quite perspicacious and pertinacious, and wish you well accordingly.
- If only the writer had stepped out of his own sport and background and viewed it more impersonally, then he could have written something a little more engaging and perspicacious.
- If only our parents could have been perspicacious enough to see our talent and force us into showbiz.
- Martin also squeezes the word "perspicacious" into his first paragraph, and drops the dime "pleonastic" later on. NYT A1: Sesquipedalian!!!! - Swampland - TIME.com
- I believe that, being quite perspicacious and witnessing his friends and coworkers being arrested, he understood clearly that he would not be spared for long.
- Melanie Phillips who is peerless in her championing of the depoliticisation of policing has chronicled this decline perspicaciously and in detail. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- In a quieter way, it shows how a man perspicacious enough to see these faults in his former comrades can fail to see them still lurking within himself.
- If she has a royally beautiful hand, the most perspicacious beholder will believe that it is absolutely necessary that she should twist, or refix, or push aside the ringlet or curl she plays with. Another Study of a Woman
- much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument