Astute

Definition: Astute

Astute

Adjective

1. Marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "astute" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)

Etymology: Astute \As*tute"\, adjective. [Latin expression astutus, from astus craft, cunning; perhaps cognate with English acute.]. (Websters 1913)

ASTUTE

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Astute

Cunning

Adjective: cunning, crafty, artful; skillful; subtle, feline, vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep, deep laid; profound; designing, contriving; intriguing;Verb: strategic, diplomatic, politic, Machiavelian, timeserving; artificial; tricky, tricksy; wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy; underhand; (hidden); subdolous; deceitful; slippery as an eel, evasive; crooked; arch, pawky, shrewd, acute; sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle; canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be caught with chaff.

Intelligence Wisdom

Adjective: intelligent, quick of apprehension, keen, acute, alive, brainy, awake, bright, quick, sharp; quick witted, keen witted, clear witted, sharp- eyed, sharp sighted, sharp witted; wide-awake; canny, shrewd, astute; clear-headed; farsighted; discerning, perspicacious, penetrating, piercing; argute; quick-witted, nimble-witted, needle-witted; sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack; alive to; (cognizant); clever; (apt); arch; (cunning); pas si bete; acute.

Crosswords: Astute

Books

• Economics for the astute businessman who is not an economist (reference)

• Pope John XXIII : an astute, pastoral leader (reference)

• Study Abroad: The Astute Student's Guide (reference)

• Swiss banks, how safe are they? : Strange speculative diversions of Switzerland's presumably astute world bankers : the tragic dilemma of the Swiss bankers (reference)

• The Art of Astute Investing: Building Wealth With No-Load Mutual Funds (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Astute Investor (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Business

The governments of Japan and Europe are particularly astute at indirectly aiding environmental companies from their nations by providing project funding and by funding research and study grants to Thai public and private bodies. (references)

The most important factors for successful entry of software products into the Taiwan market are language localization and business practice customization of the products, continuous upgrading and development of new software versions, tailored promotional activities, flexible pricing policy, possessing a reputation for reliable service and aggressive and astute representation in the local market. (references)

Economic History

Bangladesh

The local agent should be reputable, imaginative, active, politically astute and well connected, and technically competent. (references)

Norway

With proper market promotion and support, a good local business partner and/or an astute local office, American companies have unusually good prospects in this small but affluent market. (references)

Czech Republic

Signs of economic resurgence began to appear in the wake of the shock therapy that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) labeled the "big bang" of January 1991. Since then, astute economic management has led to the liberalization of 95% of all price controls, annual inflation in the 10% range, modest budgetary deficits, low unemployment, a positive balance-of-payments position, a stable exchange rate, a shift of exports from former communist economic bloc markets to Western Europe, and relatively low foreign debt. (references)

Travel

Greece

Greek business people are astute bargainers and value enduring personal business relationships. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

i mprehtë (acute, bright, clairvoyant, Clarion, discerning, edgy, exquisite, fine, high, high pitched, incisive, ingenious, keen, keen-witted, knowing, nimble, penetrating, penetrative, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, piercing, piping, pointed, pungent, quick, ridged, ridgy, sagacious, salt, sharp, sharp cut, shrill, subtile, subtle, tart, trenchant), finok (cagey, crafty, cunning, politic, sharp, smart, wily). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فطن (acute, clever, discern, discerning, keen, sagacious, shrewd, smart, sober up), ‏ماهر (adept, adroit, clever, consummate, deft, ingenious, nimble, proficient, shrewd, skilful, skilled, skillful, slick, sound, subtle), ‏ذكي (acute, agile, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, cute, dashing, fox, ingenious, intelligent, knowledgeable, luminous, natty, penetrating, quick, sagacious, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, wise, witty), ‏داهية (adroit, artful, pawky, quizzical, resourceful, shifty, shrewd, sly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

лукав (crafty, designing, feline, furtive, guileful, parlous, pawky, serpentine, sly, snaky, subtle, tricky, underhand, wicked, wily), проницателен (acute, argus-eyed, clairvoyant, clear-sighted, discerning, discriminating, discriminative, long-headed, penetrating, penetrative, perspicacious, piercing, profound, sagacious, sharp-sighted, shrewd, wise). (various references)

Chinese 

精明 (skilled). (various references)

Czech

vychytralý (artful, designing, devious, shrewd, shrewish, sly, wily), rafinovaný (crafty, cunning, refined, sneaky, sophisticated, subtle, wily), bystrý (acute, alert, bright, discerning, exquisite, keen, keen-witted, nimble, penetrating, perspicacious, quick, quick-witted, sagacious, sharp-witted, shrewd, smart, subtle), šikovný (cunning, cute, deft, dexterous, handy, ingenious, natty, nifty, skilled). (various references)

Dutch

schrander (acute, shrewd), scherpzinnig (acute, shrewd), pienter (acute, shrewd). (various references)

Esperanto

sagaca (shrewd). (various references)

Faeroese

sniðfundigur (acute, clever, cunning, shrewd, sly, smart), listilærdur (acute, shrewd), gløggur (abstemious, acute, intelligent, sagacious, shrewd, sober, staid, temperate). (various references)

Farsi 

موشکاف (Scrutinizer), محیل (Pawky, Sly, Subtle), هوشیار (Alert, Cautious, Conscious, Observant, Sober, Vigilant), ناقلا (Arch, Clever, Rogue, Shrewd, Sly), زیرک (Acute, Adroit, Agile, Alert, Brilliant, Cagey, Canny, Clever, Cunning, Gash, Keen, Perspicacious, Sagacious, Sharp, Shrewd, Smart, Subtle, Uncanny), دقیق (Accurate, Astringent, Exquisite, Literal, Particular, Precise, Precision, Punctilious, Punctual, Scholastic, Scrutinizer, Set, Sound, Stringent, Subtle, Tender, Tenuous, Watchful, Wistful), دانا (Sagacious, Sage, Savant, Spry, Wise). (various references)

Finnish

teräväjärkinen (acute, keen- witted). (various references)

French

sagace. (various references)

German

tiefblickend (perceptive), spitzfindig (acute, captious, captiously, hairsplitting, nit-picking, over-nice, overprecise, oversubtle, quibbling, shrewd, subtle, wiredrawn), schlau (artful, brightly, canny, clever, cleverly, crafty, cunning, cunningly, cute, foxy, leery, neat, neatly, nifty, sharp, shifty, shrewd, shrewdly, slily, sly, slyly, smart, smartly, sneaky, vulpine, vulpinely, wily, wise), scharfsinnig (discerning, discriminate, incisive, lucid, penetrating, penetratingly, penetrative, perceptive, perceptively, perspicacious, profound, sagacious, sagaciously, sharp, sharp witted, sharp-witted, shrewd, shrewdly, subtly), klug (able, astutely, brainy, bright, clever, cleverly, diplomatic, discreet, discreetly, ingenious, intelligent, judicious, judiciously, knowledgable, knowledgeable, politic, prudent, prudently, reasonable, sagacious, sagaciously, sage, sagely, sensible, shrewd, smart, sophisticated, sound, wary, wise, witty). (various references)

Greek 

καπάτσοσ (plausible, resourceful), πανούργοσ (arch, artful, canny, crafty, cunning, designing, parlous, pawky, sharp, shrewd, sly, slyish, subtile, subtle, vulpine, wily), οξύνουσ (acute, long-headed, percipient, sagacious, sharp-witted, shrewd). (various references)

Hebrew 

פקחי (adroit, clever, intelligent, knowing). (various references)

Hungarian

ravasz (acute, artful, be cunning, cagey, cagy, calculating, canny, catchy, colubrine, crafted, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, drafty, draughty, elusive, foxy, gimmicky, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, pawky, shifty, shrewd, slick, slim, sly, to know how many beans make five, trappy, tricksy, tricky, trigger, vulpine, wily). (various references)

Indonesian

cerdik (artful, canny, cunning, sharp, sharp-eyed, smart, tricky). (various references)

Italian

astuto (arch, artful, cagey, canny, crafty, cunning, leery, shrewd, slick, sly, subtle, wily), scaltro (cunning, shrewd, sly), sagace (far sighted, sagacious, shrewd, wise). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

抜け目ない (cunning, shrewd). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぬけめない (cunning, shrewd). (various references)

Korean 

기민한 (shrewd, SMART). (various references)

Manx

kioot (acute, canny, clever, crafty, fly, foxy, intelligent, keen-witted, quick-witted, shrewd, smart, wily), geyre-chooishagh (alert, discriminating, sharp-witted, shrewd, subtle). (various references)

Norwegian

slu, gløgg (acute). (various references)

Pig Latin

astuteay

Portuguese

astuto (acute, adroit, arch, artful, astucious, canny, clearheaded, clever, crafty, cunning, designing, guileful, jesuitic, jesuitical, leery, longheaded, machiavellian, perspicacious, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sly, smart, sophisticated, subtil, subtile, subtle, tricksy, tricky, vulpine, wily). (various references)

Romanian

ascuţit la minte, abil (adroit, apt, artful, artistic, artistical, clean, clever, competent, crafty, cunning, deep, deft, dexterous, fit, handy, industrious, knowing, natty, qualified, ready, resourceful, sharp, shifty, skilful, skilfully, skilled, skillful, skillfully, sly, smart, subtle, swift-handed, versatile), viclean (arch, artful, cagey, catlike, catty, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, downy, foxy, guileful, leery, pawky, quick-witted, shifty, sly, slyly, subtle, wily), pãtrunzãtor (acute, clear, clear-sighted, comprehensive, deep, deeply, discerning, harsh, high pitched, in-going, keen, loud, Parky, penetrating, perspicacious, piercing, quick, rich, sagacious, screaming, searching, sharp, shrewd, shrill, strident, subtle, thrilling, touching), şmecher (acute, arch, artful, canny, catchy, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, dodger, downy, leery, sharp, shaver, shifty, slick, slippery, sly, slyboots, wise guy). (various references)

Russian 

проницательный (acute, as sharp as a needle, clear-sighted, discerning, eagle-eyed, keen, long-headed, penetrating, perspicacious, piercing, politic, prescient, sagacious, shrewd). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mudar (canny, discerning, oracular, politic, sagacious, sage, sapient, well advised, wise), lukav (arch, artful, cagey, cagy, canny, captious, crafty, cunning, designing, insidious, leery, perfidious, shrewd, sleeky, sly, tricky, vulpine, wily). (various references)

Spanish

perspicaz (acute, clear-sighted, discerning, discriminating, judicious, keen, observant, penetrating, perceptive, perceptual, percipient, perspicacious, quick-sighted, sharp, sharp witted, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted, sharp-witted, shrewd, subtle), astuto (artful, cannie, canny, clever, colic, crafty, cunning, deep, devious, dodgy, foxy, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, malicious, mischievous, nasty, pawky, politic, sharp, shifty, sleeky, slick, sly, smart, tricky, vicious, wide, wily, worldly wise). (various references)

Swedish

slug (artful, cagey, canny, clever, crafty, cunning, designing, foxy, knowing, leery, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sly, smart, tricky, wily), skarpsinnig (acuate, acute, discerning, discriminating, discriminative, discriminatory, infenious, keen, long-headed, penetrating, penetrative, perspicacious, sagacious, sharp-witted). (various references)

Turkish

akıllı (all there, brainy, clever, cute, intelligent, knowing, knowledgeable, longheaded, reasonable, sagacious, sage, sapient, sensible, smart, sparkling, spiritual, understanding, well advised, wise), açıkgöz (alert, canny, cunning, fly, heady, hip, knowing, leery, nimble, open-eyed, sharp, shrewd, smart, spry, up and coming, vigilant, wide awake), zeki (apt, as fresh as paint, brainy, bright, brilliant, clear, clever, cute, discerning, ingenious, intellectual, intelligent, keen, keen-witted, longheaded, luminous, neat, nifty, nimble-witted, penetrating, penetrative, perceptional, perspicacious, quick of comprehension, quick on the trigger, quick-witted, sapient, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd, smart, sparkling, spiritual, subtile, subtle, understanding), kurnaz (arch, artful, cagey, calculating, canny, cattish, catty, coon, crafty, cunning, cute, designing, dodger, dodgy, downy, feline, Fox, foxy, hard boiled, heady, knowing, leery, politic, quirky, roguish, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slim, sly, sly old fox, slyboots, smart, subtile, tricky, vulpine, weasel, wheeler dealer, wide awake, wily, wise guy), cin gibi (arch, as fresh as paint, clever, elfin, elvish, gnomish, impish, puckish, quick-witted, sharp-witted, shrewd, wide awake). (various references)

Ukrainian

хитрий (arch, argute, artful, canny, cattish, crafty, cunning, devious, doleful, enterprising, foxy, hard-headed, leery, pawky, shifting, shrewd, sly, tricky, wide, wily), підступний (cattish, crafty, cunning, dastardly, guileful, insidious, jesuitic, jesuitical, serpentine, skittish, sly, treacherous, vulpine, wily, witty), проникливий (acute, cute, discerning, eagle-eyed, gleg, penetrative, perceptive, perspicacious, politic, profound, quick-sighted, sagacious, sharp-sighted, shrewd). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tinh ranh (dodgy), tinh khôn láu, sắc sảo (cute, salt), mánh khoé (craft, fetch, finesse, trick, wangle). (various references)

Welsh

glew (brave, daring), cyfrwys (artful, cunning), craff (acute, close, grip, hold, keen, sagacious), call (rational, sensible, wise). (various references)

astuti, astutior, astutus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "astute": astutely, astuteness, astutenesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Astute" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adstitit, asstute, Assyut, astete, astuce, astude, asture, astutes, astuye, atete, Atsabe, atue, Austoft, estute, Masutti, satute, stute. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: statue.

-1 letter: saute, state, sutta, taste, tates, tauts, teats, testa.

-2 letters: ates, east, eats, etas, sate, seat, seta, sett, stat, stet, suet, tate, tats, taus, taut, teas, teat, test, tets, tuts, utas.

-3 letters: ate, att, eat, eau, eta, sae, sat, sau, sea, set, sue, tae, tas, tat, tau, tea, tet, tut, use, uta, uts.

-4 letters: ae.

+1 letter: acutest, attunes, battues, mutates, nutates, outeats, scutate, situate, statued, statues, stature, statute, tautens, tautest, tetanus, unstate, upstate.

+2 letters: abutters, actuates, astutely, cuttages, eustatic, gauntest, lustrate, maturest, nutmeats, outcaste, outdates, outfeast, outrates, outskate, outstare, outstate, outtakes, outwaste, quartets, saturate, situated, situates, squatted, squatter, stakeout, statures, statuses, statutes, substate, takeouts, tartufes, tasteful, taunters, tautness, toluates, tuateras, tutelars, unstated, unstates, untasted, upstater, upstates, ustulate.