perspicacious
“
Perhaps our perspicacious President does, too, and will have to swallow his gall and put me back where I belong. "
View all »Definitions (7)
American Heritage Dictionary (1)
- adjective Having or showing penetrating mental discernment; clear-sighted. See Synonyms at shrewd.
Century Dictionary (3)
GNU Webster's 1913 (1)
WordNet (2)
Elsewhere on the web
View all » Examples
- Another reader, a bit less perspicacious, didn't like the ship-lifting-off-Earth stories, because "it's possible, I suppose, but unlikely." — Analog Science Fiction and Fact
- It was Lady Weathersfield who had presented the failed Cambridge scholar to his lordship, which was small wonder to the more perspicacious segments of the London gentry. — Asimov's Science Fiction
- 'Well, I admit you are quite perspicacious, Monsieur Constant,' she replied. — Sepulchre
- "My, you are perspicacious, aren't you, Mr. Spock? — Trek to Madworld
-
Perhaps our perspicacious President does, too, and will have to swallow his gall and put me back where I belong. "
— Isabelle
Stats
Perspicacious has been looked up 1,280 times, favorited 15 times, listed 151 times, commented on 4 times, and has a Scrabble score of 21.
On Twitter
View all »Etymologies (3)
American Heritage Dictionary (1)
- From Latin perspicāx, perspicāc-, from perspicere, to look through; see perspective.
Century Dictionary (1)
GNU Webster's 1913 (1)
WordNet
Record your own »
Pronunciations
/ (pûrˌspĭ-kāˈshəs)/
by
American Heritage Dictionary