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most astute

ADJECTIVE

perceptive

Synonyms

STRONGEST

adroit canny crafty discerning insightful intelligent keen shrewd

WEAK

brainy bright calculating clever foxy knowing not born yesterday on the ball perspicacious quick on the uptake sagacious savvy sharp sharp as a tack sly

Antonyms

STRONGEST

foolish idiotic inept naive stupid

WEAK

asinine ignorant imbecile obtuse shallow thick unintelligent

Example Sentences

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“It’s not virtual reality,” said Mike Madrid, a longtime California Republican strategist and one of the state’s most astute political observers.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026

Former world number nine Andrea Petkovic, now regarded as one of the most astute current analysts, saw a "new freshness" when Swiatek played her first grass-court event at Bad Homburg.

From BBC • Jul. 10, 2025

We are also some of the most astute students of American politics and society and its potential and failures as a democratic society.

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2025

The paradox was so far from the test writers’ awareness that four wasn’t offered as an option among the possible answers, so even the most astute students were forced to submit a wrong response.

From Scientific American • Jun. 20, 2023

He never accepted the revised figures and to his dying day believed his work on the age of the Earth his most astute and important contribution to science–far greater than his work on thermodynamics.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson