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Perspicacious adj.

Having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp of sight.

Fig.: Of acute discernment; keen.

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Etymology of 'Perspicacious'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Perspicacious" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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

Words linked to "Perspicacious" : clear-sighted, perspicacity, discerning, wise, perspicaciousness, sapient