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Perspicacious   /pərspəkˈeɪʃəs/   Listen
Perspicacious

adjective
1.
Acutely insightful and wise.  Synonyms: sagacious, sapient.  "Observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions" , "A source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators"
2.
Mentally acute or penetratingly discerning.  Synonyms: clear-eyed, clear-sighted.  "Chaos could be prevented only by clear-sighted leadership" , "Much too perspicacious to be taken in by so spurious an argument"



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"Perspicacious" Quotes from Famous Books



... perspicacious! honoured at Epidaurus! good for men! who cured King Ptolemy, the soldiers of Moses, and Glaucus, ...
— The Temptation of St. Antony - or A Revelation of the Soul • Gustave Flaubert

... either very subtle, or very perspicacious, noticed that there was something different in his home. Eveline, who quite lately had interested herself in his affairs, and shown, if not tenderness, at least affection, towards him, displayed henceforth ...
— Penguin Island • Anatole France

... manifestations of it. That is why his stories are short; often mere allusions stand in place of actual development. And whatever domains or corners of Russian life the reader, under the guiding hand of this perspicacious cicerone, may visit, he will almost always go away with one predominating impression: the lamentable ...
— Contemporary Russian Novelists • Serge Persky

... Cupid has done this thing. With unerring aim he has loosed his arrows. With the same happy arrow (taking the MOTHER'S hand) he has pierced the hearts of this gracious lady and myself, while yonder gallant gentleman I name no names, but the perspicacious will perceive whom I mean—is about to link his life with the charming maiden who stands so modestly by his side. There is one other noble lady present to whom ...
— First Plays • A. A. Milne

... opinion of her charm and ability was of the very highest.... No doubt her strange remark about duelling at dinner had been humorous in intention, but many a true word is spoken in jest, and the Contessa—perspicacious woman—had seen at once that Major Benjy and Captain Puffin were just the sort of men who might get to duelling (or, at any rate, challenging) about a woman. And her asking which of the ladies the men ...
— Miss Mapp • Edward Frederic Benson

... policy was, of course, indicative of a shrewd and perspicacious mind. Humble as Lecamus seemed to the outer world, he was despotic in his own home; there he was an autocrat. Most respected and honored by his brother craftsmen, he owed to his long possession of the first place in the trade much of the consideration ...
— Catherine de' Medici • Honore de Balzac

... the Lord High Swank skipped nimbly hence, And hid him safe behind the fence Of Regulation VI. And under Section Four Eight 0 The Swanks, the Swanks, dim forms of Swanks, The swarms of Swanks lay low— These most tenacious, perspicacious, Spacious Swanks lay low. ...
— The Glugs of Gosh • C. J. Dennis



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