wisest

ADJECTIVE

intelligent, reasonable

Synonyms

STRONGEST

astute aware careful educated enlightened experienced informed judicious knowledgeable perceptive prudent rational sane sensible shrewd smart thoughtful wary well-informed

STRONG

contemplative cunning grasping keen knowing sage sensing sharp sound understanding

WEAK

calculating clever cogitative crafty discerning discreet erudite foresighted insightful intuitive perspicacious politic reflective sagacious sapient scholarly sophic tactful taught witty

Antonyms

STRONGEST

careless foolish heedless idiotic ignorant inattentive incautious indiscreet inexperienced insensitive irrational obtuse reckless senseless stupid thoughtless unaware uneducated uninformed unintelligent unknowledgeable unrealistic unreasonable unsophisticated unsound unwise

STRONG

blunt dull kind

Example Sentences

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Andy Samberg’s Jake Peralta heads a misfit but inevitably successful team of New York detectives, headed by the driest, wisest chief in TV history — Captain Holt, played by the late, great Andre Braugher.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

But once talks broke down over an extension in Carolina, the Hurricanes decided that the wisest long-term move was to ship him somewhere else.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2025

I think this is, by far, the wisest course in the short term.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2025

But you here, whom nature made the wisest of all people, should drop your anger and make everyone who fights alongside us at sea a kinsman, a citizen.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2025

“I wonder if you really mean it. Of course under the circumstances it’s the wisest thing he can do. Gossip is an unpleasant thing to some people. It’s more pleasant to avoid it, isn’t it?”

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier