Front | sagacious |
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Pron | [sə'ɡeɪʃəs] |
Back | 【sagacious】 adj.精明的 A sagacious businessman seldom fails in his business. 精明的商人在生意上很少失败。 |
Vocab | sagaciousacutely insightful and wise
Use the formal adjective, sagacious, to describe someone who is wise and insightful like an advisor to the president or a Supreme Court justice. Someone like an inspirational leader or an expert in a field who seeks knowledge and has foresight can be described as sagacious. If you comment on something at a deeper level, you are making a sagacious observation. The word is a descendent of Latin sagus "prophetic" and is related to the Old English word seek. Synonyms include discerning, insightful and another formal word perspicacious. All forms of 'sagacious' will appear on average once every 1662 pages. sagaciously sagaciousness sagacious sagacity |
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