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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | perceptive |
| Synonyms: | acute, canny, cautious, clairvoyant, commonsensical, cool-headed, discerning, far-seeing, judicious, levelheaded, politic, prescient, provident, prudent, sagacious, sage, shrewd, well-balanced, wise |
| Antonyms: | myopic, nearsighted, rash, shortsighted, unwise |
| Main Entry: | sapient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sagacious |
| Synonyms: | acute, astucious, astute, cagey, canny, clear-sighted, clever, contemplative, discerning, discriminating, educated, enlightened, experienced, farsighted, foxy*, informed, insightful, intelligent, judicious, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, perceptive, reflective, sage, scholarly, sensible, sharp, shrewd, smart, thoughtful, wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | savvy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shrewd |
| Synonyms: | acute, astute, brainy, cagey, calculating, canny, clever, crafty, cunning, discerning, experienced, farsighted, foxy*, heady, in the know, ingenious, intelligent, judicious, keen, knowing, on the ball, perceptive, sagacious, sensible, sharp, slick*, sly, smart, smooth, streetwise, wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | shrewd |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clever, intelligent |
| Synonyms: | acute, argute, artful, astucious, astute, brainy, cagey, calculating, canny, crafty, cunning, cutting*, deep*, discerning, discriminating, farsighted, foxy*, heady, in the know, ingenious, inside, judicious, keen, knowing, on the inside, on top of, penetrating, perceptive, perspicacious, piercing, probing, profound, prudent, quick-witted, sagacious, savvy*, sensible, shark, sharp, slick*, slippery*, sly, smart, smooth, streetwise, tricky, underhand, up on, wily, wise, wised up |
| Antonyms: | foolish, frivolous, naive, stupid, unthinking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thoughtful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contemplative, introspective |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, analytical, attentive, brainy, calculating, cerebral, cogitative, deep, deliberative, discerning, earnest, engrossed, farsighted, grave, intellectual, intent, keen, levelheaded, logical, lost in thought, meditative, melancholy, museful, musing, pensive, philosophic, pondering, preoccupied, rapt, rational, reasonable, reasoning, reflecting, reflective, retrospective, ruminative, serious, sober, studious, subjective, thinking, wise, wistful |
| Antonyms: | idiotic, negligent, obtuse, remiss, stupid, thoughtless |
| Main Entry: | level-headed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | calm |
| Synonyms: | all there, balanced, collected, commonsensical, composed, cool, coolheaded, dependable, discreet, even-tempered, farsighted, judicious, practical, prudent, rational, reasonable, sane, self-possessed, sensible, steady, together, unflappable, wise |
| Antonyms: | excitable |
| Main Entry: | prescient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | perceptive |
| Synonyms: | farsighted, foresighted, judicious |
| Notes: | prescient is having foreknowledge, parviscient is having little knowledge, and nescient is lacking or disclaiming knowledge |
| Main Entry: | foresighted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | visionary |
| Synonyms: | farsighted, foreseeing, perceptive, prescient, provident, sagacious |
| Main Entry: | ruminative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thoughtful |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, analytical, attentive, brainy, calculating, cerebral, cogitative, contemplative, deep, deliberative, discerning, earnest, engrossed, excogitative, farsighted, grave, in a brown study, intellectual, intent, keen, levelheaded, logical, lost in thought, meditative, melancholy, museful, musing, pensive, philosophic, pondering, preoccupied, rapt, rational, reasonable, reasoning, reflecting, reflective, retrospective, serious, sober, speculative, studious, subjective, thinking, wise*, wistful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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