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perspicacious
Meaning: having keen insight
perspicacious in a sentence
How perspicacious is used in real sentences:
Her perspicacious analysis impressed the judges.
Her perspicacious analysis impressed the judges.
“A perspicacious interpreter may detect that pressure, but personal insight does not authorize intervention in the examination.”
— from the passage Between Speech and Judgment
“Elise was perspicacious enough to see his point before he spoke, and she asked the cellos for restraint herself.”
— from the passage The Unfinished Finale
“One perspicacious analyst noticed that modest average waits could belie severe burdens: a parent who left to collect a child often restarted at the back.”
— from the passage Waiting by Design
Synonyms for perspicacious
Other words for perspicacious — shrewd, perceptive and astute — carry the same meaning.
Antonyms of perspicacious
Words that mean the opposite of perspicacious:
- dull
- obtuse
Where it comes from
From Latin perspicax 'sharp-sighted'
Memory hook
PERSPICACIOUS — SEES PERfectly.
Practice perspicacious in the app