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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

In particular, Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins has emerged as one of the judiciary’s most astute and merciless critics of the Roberts court.

From Slate • Sep. 19, 2025

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

Yet somehow Linus, unquestionably the world’s most astute chemist, had come to the opposite conclusion.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson