Perspicacious

Definitions: Perspicacious

Perspicacious

Adjective

1. Acutely insightful and wise; "much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument"; "observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions"; "a source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators".

2. Mentally acute or penetratingly discerning; "too clear-eyed not to see what problems would follow"; "chaos could be prevented only by clear-sighted leadership"; "much too perspicacious to be taken in by so spurious an argument".

Date "perspicacious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1877. (references)

Etymology: Perspicacious \Per`spi*ca"cious\, adjective. [Latin expression perspicax, -acis, from perspicere to look through: compare to the French expression perspicace. See Perspective.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Perspicacious

Synonyms: clear-eyed (adj), clear-sighted (adj), sagacious (adj), sapient (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
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.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Perspicacious

English words defined with "perspicacious": clear-eyed, clear-sighted ♦ sagacious, sapient. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	The Handbook on the Psychology of Hemoglobin-S: A Perspicacious View of Sickle Cell Disease (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Perspicacious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Perspicacious" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	14	93,893

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "perspicacious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mendjemprehtë (acute, cute, nimble, penetrating, quick-witted, sharp-witted, shrewd, witty), mendjehollë (clairvoyant, clear-sighted, discerning, intelligent, long-headed, patent, perceptive, quick-witted, sagacious, shrewd, smart), i mprehtë (acute, astute, bright, clairvoyant, Clarion, discerning, edgy, exquisite, fine, high, high pitched, incisive, ingenious, keen, keen-witted, knowing, nimble, penetrating, penetrative, perceptive, percipient, piercing, piping, pointed, pungent, quick, ridged, ridgy, sagacious, salt, sharp, sharp cut, shrill, subtile, subtle, tart, trenchant), i hollë (dainty, delicate, dinky, discerning, egg shell, exquisite, flimsy, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, ingenious, keen, liny, meager, meagre, nice, paper, papery, perceptive, percipient, politic, sleazy, slender, slim, small, spidery, spindling, spindly, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin, Twiggy, washy). (various references)

Arabic		‏نافذ (penetrating, penetrative, piercing, searching), ‏حاد الذهن (quick-witted, sharp-witted, subtle), ‏ثاقب الفكر (incisive). (various references)

Bulgarian		остър (acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, angular, argute, arrowy, biting, bitter, crusty, cutting, edgy, excruciating, fine, fulminating, gabled, grating, gravelly, grinding, high pitched, keen, lancinating, metallic, nice, nipping, nippy, penetrating, penetrative, peppery, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, ragged, searching, sharp, shrill, slashing, stiff, strident, strong, tangy, trenchant), проницателен (acute, argus-eyed, astute, clairvoyant, clear-sighted, discerning, discriminating, discriminative, long-headed, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, profound, sagacious, sharp-sighted, shrewd, wise), прозорлив (farseeing, penetrating, penetrative, profound, sagacious), предвидлив (designing, farsighted, forehanded, foreseeing, foresighted, provident). (various references)

Chinese		睿 (astute, farsighted), 叡 (astute). (various references)

Czech		dùvtipný, bystrozraký (clear-sighted, hawk-eyed, sharp-sighted), bystrý (acute, alert, astute, bright, discerning, exquisite, keen, keen-witted, nimble, penetrating, quick, quick-witted, sagacious, sharp-witted, shrewd, smart, subtle). (various references)

Farsi		تیزهوش (Sitted), زیرک (Acute, Adroit, Agile, Alert, Astute, Brilliant, Cagey, Canny, Clever, Cunning, Gash, Keen, Sagacious, Sharp, Shrewd, Smart, Subtle, Uncanny), بینا (Seeing). (various references)

French		perspicace (penetrating, perceptive, percipient), pénétrant (penetrating, penetrative, pervasive). (various references)

German		weitsichtig (farsighted, longsighted, presbyopic, prospective), scharfsinnig (astute, discerning, discriminate, incisive, lucid, penetrating, penetratingly, penetrative, perceptive, perceptively, profound, sagacious, sagaciously, sharp, sharp witted, sharp-witted, shrewd, shrewdly, subtly), scharfsichtig (clear-sighted, keen-sighted, perceptive, sharp sighted, sharp-sighted), klar (articulate, articulative, bold, clean, clean-cut, clear, clearly, crisp, definite, distinct, distinctly, evident, explicitly, fair, intelligibly, limpid, lucid, lucidly, manifest, obvious, perspicuous, perspicuously, plain, plainly, precise, rather, ready, sure, transparent, unclouded, understood, unobscured, white, yeah). (various references)

Greek		οξυδερκήσ (clear-sighted, discriminating, far sighted, perceptive, statesmanlike), διορατικόσ. (various references)

Hebrew		בעל תפיסה חדה. (various references)

Hungarian		tisztánlátó (clairvoyant, open-eyed), mélyreható (radical, thorough), jó szemű (keen-eyed), éles szemű (keen-eyed, lynx-eyed, perceptive), éles (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, clangorous, crispy, cutting, edgy, harsh, have a keen edge, high pitched, incisive, keen, live, lurid, nipping, nippy, penetrating, plucky, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, reedy, rough, sarky, sharp, sharp-edged, shrewd, shrill, slashing, snap, squall, strident, to highlight, trenchant). (various references)

Indonesian		tajam pikiran (sharp-witted). (various references)

Italian		perspicace (acute, astute, discerning, discriminating, judicious, observant, percipient, quick-witted, sharp witted, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted, shrewd, subtle). (various references)

Manx		gyere hastagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		erspicaciouspay

Portuguese		perspicaz (acute, apprehensive, argute, astucious, astute, canny, clear, clearheaded, clear-sighted, cute, discerning, far sighted, far-seeing, keen, long sighted, longheaded, penetration, penetrative, quick-eyed, sagacious, sharp, shrewd), lúcido (clearheaded, limpid, lucid, pellucid), evidente (apparent, axiomatic, axiomatical, clear, evident, glaringly, luculent, marked, obvious, open, open and shut, overt, palpable, plain, tangible, transparent, unequivocal, unmistakable, visible), em perspectiva (prospective), astuto (acute, adroit, arch, artful, astucious, astute, canny, clearheaded, clever, crafty, cunning, designing, guileful, jesuitic, jesuitical, leery, longing, Machiavellian, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sly, smart, sophisticated, subtil, subtile, subtle, tricksy, tricky, vulpine, wily). (various references)

Romanian		perspicace (acute, argute, perspicaciously, ready-witted, sagacious, shrewd, understanding), pãtrunzãtor (acute, astute, clear, clear-sighted, comprehensive, deep, deeply, discerning, harsh, high pitched, in-going, keen, loud, Parky, penetrating, piercing, quick, rich, sagacious, screaming, searching, sharp, shrewd, shrill, strident, subtle, thrilling, touching), isteţ (adroit, clever, cunning, cute, fast, forward, mercurial, natty, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-sighted, smart, spirited). (various references)

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

Serbo-Croatian		pronicljiv (argute, clairvoyant, clear-sighted, discerning, keen, piercing, poignant, trenchant), vispren (clever, shrewd, wise), oštrouman (apprehensive, clever, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-sighted, sharp-witted). (various references)

Spanish		perspicaz (acute, astute, clear-sighted, discerning, discriminating, judicious, keen, observant, penetrating, perceptive, perceptual, percipient, quick-sighted, sharp, sharp witted, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted, sharp-witted, shrewd, subtle). (various references)

Swedish		skarpsynt (discriminating, keen-eyed, keen-sighted, sharp-sighted). (various references)

Turkish		zeki (apt, as fresh as paint, astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, clear, clever, cute, discerning, ingenious, intellectual, intelligent, keen, keen-witted, longheaded, luminous, neat, nifty, nimble-witted, penetrating, penetrative, perceptional, quick of comprehension, quick on the trigger, quick-witted, sapient, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd, smart, sparkling, spiritual, subtile, subtle, understanding), kavrama yeteneği yüksek. (various references)

Ukranian		проникливий (acute, astute, cute, discerning, eagle-eyed, gleg, penetrative, perceptive, politic, profound, quick-sighted, sagacious, sharp-sighted, shrewd). (various references)

Vietnamese		sáng trí, sáng suốt (discerning, discriminate, discriminative, discriminatory, insightful, judicious), minh mẫn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "perspicacious": perspicaciously, perspicaciousness, perspicaciousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Perspicacious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: percpicacious, perpiscacious, persipicacious, perspecacious, perspiacious, perspicaciou, perspicaciuos, perspicatious, prespicacious. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "perspicacious" (pronounced 'Per`spi*ca"cious'): Artificious, Astucious, Atrocious, Audacious, Auspicious, Autoecious, Avaricious, Bibacious, Capacious, Capricious, Cilicious, Contumacious, Convicious, Delicious, fugacious, Fumacious, Furacious, Glacious, gracious, heteroecious, inauspicious, inefficacious, injudicious, judicious, Linguacious, loquacious, luscious, Malgracious, malicious, mendacious, Meracious, meretricious, minacious, Misgracious, monoecious, mordacious, Multiplicious, Multiscious, Obstetricious, Officious, Omniscious, Overluscious, Overofficious, Palacious, Pertinacious, Pervicacious, Petrosilicious, Phenicious, Phoenicious, Precocious. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-i-o-p-p-r-s-s-u"
	-3 letters: capricious, isocracies, periscopic.
	-4 letters: aruspices, occupiers, piscaries, priapuses, succories, supercops.
	-5 letters: accusers, apposers, apprises, auspices, caesuric, caprices, carouses, circuses, copperas, coppices, corpuses, crappies, crocuses, croppies, curacies, epicarps, episcias, occupier, occupies, piracies, precious, purposes, scariose, scarious, scaupers, scrapies, scuppers, spacious, specious, supercop, supposer, upraises.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-i-i-o-p-p-r-s-s-u"
	+2 letters: perspicaciously.
	+4 letters: perspicaciousness.
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