perspicacious
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9.8
- adjective
- /ˌpɜrspɪˈkeɪʃəs/
- Formal
:
perspicaz
- His perspicacious observations allowed him to connect the dots between seemingly unrelated events.
- the most perspicacious
- more perspicacious
It's great to be oh, it's great to be anywhere, but especially in your company, Tom and and those of your that of your perspicacious audience.
- It's great to be oh, it's great to be anywhere, but especially in your company, Tom and and those of your that of your perspicacious audience.
Examples
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The detective was perspicacious enough to notice the small details that others overlooked.
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The opening scene not only provided the perspicacious theatergoer with the means of anticipating and understanding Ana Bolena's deleterious influence on Enrique's marriage and faith but also offered insight into the production's modus operandi.
Academic text (2017) -
It would be an honor to get to know your perspicacious mind.
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There is no more perspicacious way to articulate this point than with art.
Academic text (2007) -
Do you deem yourself more perspicacious than our Emperor?
Fiction book (2002) -
I was privileged to listen to a perspicacious old lady who had just returned from her 60th college class reunion.
Academic text (2011) -
In his 1932 book Moral Man and Immoral Society, a book frequently cited by King, Niebuhr offered a perspicacious analysis of the race problem in America.
Academic text (2003) -
Equipped with a critical grasp of their tradition's complex and holistic social vision, Catholics should be active and perspicacious collaborators in contemporary movements for economic justice.
Academic text (2005) -
The problem with the novel-as-essay is that in the hands of all but the most gifted and perspicacious of writers, and the most assured of stylists, it lends itself to eruptions of psychological and philosophical didacticism as no other art form does.
Academic text (2009) -
She offered perspicacious insights during the discussion, helping everyone understand the complex issue better.
Synonyms
43
5.5
Quick to notice or understand small details and meaning
40
6.9
Good at understanding a situation quickly and using it to get an advantage
35
3.9
Quick to notice small details and things around you
20
6.7
Able to notice small details and make good choices
7
5.6
Able to think and judge things in a calm, practical way
3
4.1
Able to see small things and notice small changes quickly
2
8.6
Being very wise and good at making decisions
1
9.2
Able to notice and understand things quickly
1
5.8
Able to see small details clearly
1
9.9
Showing deep wisdom and good sense about people and life
1
5.5
Able to think clearly, understand quickly, and make good judgments
Understands things quickly and deeply
Quick to notice and understand small details
Quick to notice small changes or details that others miss
Antonyms
Compounds
How Insightful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Perspicacious comes from Latin parts per- ('through') and specere ('to look'), so it is like 'looking through' things to see what is really there. You can see the same root in inspect ('look closely'), which is why a perspicacious person notices things that are not obvious.