Sagacious

Use the formal adjective, sagacious, to describe someone who is wise and insightful like an advisor to the president or a Supreme Court justice.

• Pronunciation: / sə'ɡeʃəs/
• English Description: having or prompted by wisdom or discernment
• Chinese Translation: 睿智的(rui4 zhi4 de)
• Spanish Translation: sagaz
• STORY: Someone like an inspirational leader or an expert in a field who seeks knowledge and has foresight can be described as sagacious. If you comment on something at a deeper level, you are making a sagacious observation. The word is a descendent of Latin sagus "prophetic" and is related to the Old English word seek. Synonyms include discerning, insightfuland another formal word perspicacious.

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

• Students may benefit more from a sagacious senior than they do from many a thirsty, young tenure-track careerist.
• Instead, it demonstrates how a sagacious musician could create his own style through the syntax of others.

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