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Definition of Sagacious
1. Adjective. Acutely insightful and wise. "A source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators"
Similar to: Wise
Derivative terms: Perspicaciousness, Perspicacity, Sagaciousness, Sapience
2. Adjective. Skillful in statecraft or management. "An astute and sagacious statesman"
Definition of Sagacious
1. a. Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail.
Definition of Sagacious
1. Adjective. Having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sagacious
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sagacious
Literary usage of Sagacious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Civil War in America: Comprising a Full and Impartial by John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1866)
"sagacious PLAN OF THE REBELS. —MORE sagacious PLAN OF GENERAL ROSECRANS.—ASPECT
OF THE COUNTRY.—THE TRAP. —BATTLE OF CORINTH.—INCIDENTS. ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... and metaphysical opinions of the human miai : and the most sagacious divines
could distinguish, according to the colour of their respective prejudices, ..."
3. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"Achitophel, For close designs, and crooked counsels fit ; sagacious, bold, and
turbulent of wit : — (Page 111, lines 152, 153. ..."
4. Southern Literary Messenger (1858)
"So, though the story told above The simple deem a tale of love, Yet let the more
sagacious try What secret sense they can descry ; And he that rightly reads ..."
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