sagacious

Coined between 1600 and 1610. Borrowed from Latin sagāx, +‎ -ious.

• IPA^(key): /səˈɡeɪʃəs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃəs

sagacious (comparative more sagacious, superlative most sagacious)

1. Having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness; mentally shrewd.
   • 2020 July 10, Ben Williams, “The U.S. Supreme Court and sexual orientation”, in The Mississippi Business Journal:

     I resort, once again, to a sagacious adage from Justice Scalia […]

• astute
• clairvoyant
• frood

• sagaciously
• sagaciousness

• sagacity

• “sagacious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “sagacious”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “sagacious”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.