Perspicacious Definition

pûrspĭ-kāshəs
adjective
Having or showing penetrating mental discernment; clear-sighted.
American Heritage
Having keen judgment or understanding; acutely perceptive.
Webster's New World
Having keen vision.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Perspicacious

  • First attested 1548, from Late Latin perspicācitās (“discernment"), from Latin perspicax (“sharp-sighted"), from perspiciō (“look through"), from per- (“through") + speciō (“look at"). See also perspective.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Latin perspicāx perspicāc- from perspicere to look through perspective

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Perspicacious Sentence Examples

  • The Jagiellos were rarely brilliant, but they were always perspicacious.

  • In relation to the Church in Italy, Minghettis policy was less perspicacious.

  • Those, on the contrary, who think that the nation which was on the very eve of surrendering itself to the Napoleonic absolutism was not in a hopeful humour for peace and the European order, will believe that Burke's protests were as perspicacious as they were powerful, and that anything which chilled the energy of the war was as fatal as he declared it to be.

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