Lexic.us

Definition of Perspicacious

1. Adjective. Acutely insightful and wise. "A source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators"

2. Adjective. Mentally acute or penetratingly discerning. "Much too perspicacious to be taken in by so spurious an argument"

Definition of Perspicacious

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

Definition of Perspicacious

1. Adjective. (figuratively) Of acute discernment; having keen insight; mentally perceptive. ¹

2. Adjective. (obsolete) Able to physically see clearly; quick-sighted; sharp-sighted. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Perspicacious

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Perspicacious

persons of ordinary skill in the art persons of size personæ perspectival perspective perspectiveless perspectively perspectives perspectivism perspectograph

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Literary usage of Perspicacious

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"... and flourishing kingdoms of Greece, should be so besotted ; and we in our times, how those witty Chinese, so perspicacious in all other things should be ..."

2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1905)
"... and flourishing kingdoms of Greece, should be so besotted; and we in our times, how those witty Chinese, so perspicacious in all other things should be ..."

3. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"far-seeing, perspicacious. Long bome. The tomb, the sepulchre, the grave, Kent, acute, shrewd, clear-sighted, keen-sighted, 2. Relax, loosen. narrow house, ..."

4. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"See PERSONAL 2. persons See PEOPLE, PERSONS. perspicacious, perspicacity, perspicuous, perspicuity Fowler 1926 was perhaps wise in his approach to this ..."

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