Sagacious

Definitions: Sagacious

Sagacious

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. Skillful in statecraft or management; "an astute and sagacious statesman".

Date "sagacious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Sagacious \Sa*ga"cious\, adjective. [Latin expression sagax, sagacis, akin to sagire to perceive quickly or keenly, and probably to English seek. See Seek, and compare to Presage.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Sagacious

Synonyms: perspicacious (adj), sapient (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Foresight	Adjective: foreseeing; Verb: prescient; farseeing, farsighted; sagacious; (intelligent); weatherwise; provident; (prepared); prospective.
Intelligence Wisdom	Wise, sage, sapient, sagacious, reasonable, rational, sound, in one's right mind, sensible, abnormis sapiens, judicious, strong-minded.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Sagacious

English words defined with "sagacious": Argute ♦ Hard-headed ♦ Long-sighted ♦ perspicacious ♦ sapient ♦ To brace sharp, To have a long head, To sharp up. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sagacious": Aladine ♦ Froude's Cat ♦ Gama ♦ Waiters upon Providence. (references)

Etymologies containing "sagacious": sagacity. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A Compendium of Trite Cliches, Hard Sayings and Sagacious Witticisms (reference) Sagacious Monks and Bloodthirsty Warriors: Chinese Views of Japan in the Ming-Qing Period (Signature Books (White Plains, N.Y.).) (reference) Sagacious reasoning : Henry Odera Oruka in memoriam (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Plautus	Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
Titus Maccius Plautus	Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Between these four ways a less sagacious man would have been undecided.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Sagacious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 86.67% of the time. "Sagacious" is used about 15 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)	86.67%	13	97,576
Noun (proper)	13.33%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	15	N/A

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 "sagacious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		intelligent (intelligent), wys (indicate, manner, melody, mode, point, point out, sage, show, tune, voice, vote, way, wise). (various references)

Albanian		mendjehollë (clairvoyant, clear-sighted, discerning, intelligent, long-headed, patent, perceptive, perspicacious, quick-witted, shrewd, smart), me nuhatje, i zgjuar (apt, artful, astir, awake, awaken, bright, cagey, cagy, clever, exalted, ingenious, intelligent, nimble, quick, quick-witted, ready-witted, reasonable, responsible, sharp, sharp-witted, sleepless, smart, wakeful, waking), 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, perspicacious, piercing, piping, pointed, pungent, quick, ridged, ridgy, salt, sharp, sharp cut, shrill, subtile, subtle, tart, trenchant). (various references)

Arabic		‏فطن (acute, astute, clever, discern, discerning, keen, shrewd, smart, sober up), ‏حصيف (discreet, judicial, judicious, prudent, reasonable, shrewd, wise), ‏عاقل (discreet, intelligent, judicious, politic, prudent, rational, reasonable, sage, sane, sensible, sober minded, sound), ‏ذكي (acute, agile, astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, cute, dashing, fox, ingenious, intelligent, knowledgeable, luminous, natty, penetrating, quick, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, wise, witty), ‏ثاقب (acute, boring, hand drill, keen, penetrating, perforator, piercing, sharp). (various references)

Bulgarian		проницателен (acute, argus-eyed, astute, clairvoyant, clear-sighted, discerning, discriminating, discriminative, long-headed, penetrating, penetrative, perspicacious, piercing, profound, sharp-sighted, shrewd, wise), прозорлив (farseeing, penetrating, penetrative, perspicacious, profound), пресметлив (calculating), интелигентен (clever, intelligent, knowledgeable, smart), далновиден (farseeing, longsighted, prescient, sage, sharp-sighted). (various references)

Czech		prozíravý (clear-sighted, farseeing, farsighted, forethoughtful, judicious, politic, provident, wise), bystrý (acute, alert, astute, bright, discerning, exquisite, keen, keen-witted, nimble, penetrating, perspicacious, quick, quick-witted, sharp-witted, shrewd, smart, subtle). (various references)

Danish		intelligent (intelligent, user-programmable), fornuftig (prudent, reasonable, sage, sensible, wise). (various references)

Dutch		intelligent (intelligent, user-programmable). (various references)

Esperanto		saĝa (sage, wise), inteligenta (intelligent). (various references)

Faeroese		skynsamur (intelligent, rational), vísur (sage, wise), klókur (sage, wise), gløggur (abstemious, acute, astute, intelligent, shrewd, sober, staid, temperate). (various references)

Farsi		هوشمند (Intelligent), زیرک (Acute, Adroit, Agile, Alert, Astute, Brilliant, Cagey, Canny, Clever, Cunning, Gash, Keen, Perspicacious, Sharp, Shrewd, Smart, Subtle, Uncanny), عاقل (Canny, Sage, Sane, Sober, Wise), دانا (Astute, Sage, Savant, Spry, Wise), بافراست (Sage), باهوش (Bright, Clever, Ingenious, Intelligent, Keen, Precocious, Shrewd, Smart, Spiffy, Spry, Swish, Understanding). (various references)

Finnish		viisas (clever, in one's right mind, judicious, sage, sane, wise), älykäs (bright, clever, intelligent, prudent, quick-witted, reasonable, sensible). (various references)

French		intelligent. (various references)

Frisian		yntelligint (intelligent). (various references)

German		weise (air, fashion, magi, manner, means, melody, mode, oracular, refer, sagaciously, sage, sagely, sages, sapient, tune, way, wise, wise man, wisely), klug (able, astute, astutely, brainy, bright, clever, cleverly, diplomatic, discreet, discreetly, ingenious, intelligent, judicious, judiciously, knowledgable, knowledgeable, politic, prudent, prudently, reasonable, sagaciously, sage, sagely, sensible, shrewd, smart, sophisticated, sound, wary, wise, witty). (various references)

Greek		μυαλωμένοσ, αγχίνουσ, οξύνουσ (acute, astute, long-headed, percipient, sharp-witted, shrewd). (various references)

Hebrew		� בון (clever, discerning, discreet, intelligent, judicial, judicious, sage, sapient, sensible, well advised, wise). (various references)

Hungarian		okos (advised, brainy, bright, canny, clever, cunning, judicious, nimble, nimble-minded, nimble-witted, prudent, sharp, shrewd, sly, smart, sophisticated, wise), intelligens (brainy, clever, intelligent, smart), éles eszû (bright, keen-witted, sharp-witted, witty). (various references)

Irish		ciallmhar (sage, sensible, wise). (various references)

Italian		saggio (assay, bright, clever, cleverly, graybeard, greybeard, paper, politic, sage, sample, sapient, specimen, taste, test, test sample, well advised, wise, wise man), sagace (astute, far sighted, shrewd, wise). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		知余って勇足らず (being too sagacious to be bold, lacking boldness by being too sagacious). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ちあまってゆうたらず (being too sagacious to be bold, lacking boldness by being too sagacious). (various references)

Malay		cerdik (intelligent). (various references)

Manx		tastagh (acute, acute keen-witted, considerate, discerning, keen, keen of mind, knowing, observant, perceptive, percipient, politic, vigilant), geyre-hastagh (heedful). (various references)

Papiamen		inteligente (intelligent). (various references)

Pig Latin		agacioussay.(various references)

Polish		mądry. (various references)

Portuguese		sagaz (acute, adroit, astute, canny, clearheaded, deep, diplomatic, discernment, judicious, keen, long sighted, political, prudent, sapient, shrewd, sophisticated, wise), inteligente (adroit, apprehensive, apt, brainy, clearheaded, clever, informed, intellectual, intelligent, knowing, known, penetrative, quick-witted, sensitive, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, understanding, user-programmable), ajuizado (clearheaded, discrepancy, sage, sensible, wise). (various references)

Romanian		subtil (acute, delicate, fine, fine-spun, insidious, nice, refined, shrewd, subtle, subtly, tenuous), sagace (acute, discerning), sãnãtos (able bodied, fresh, good, Hale, healthful, healthily, healthy, heartily, i'm allright, right, sound, soundly, strong, up to the mark, well, wholesome, wise), perspicace (acute, argute, perspicacious, perspicaciously, ready-witted, shrewd, understanding), pãtrunzãtor (acute, astute, clear, clear-sighted, comprehensive, deep, deeply, discerning, harsh, high pitched, in-going, keen, loud, Parky, penetrating, perspicacious, piercing, quick, rich, screaming, searching, sharp, shrewd, shrill, strident, subtle, thrilling, touching), inteligent (apprehensive, argute, brainy, bright, clever, comprehensive, cute, intelligent, keen, lively, luminous, neat, nimbly, politic, sage, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, understanding), ingenios (clever, cleverly, cute, daedal, ingenious, inventive, patent, skilful, skillful), clarvãzãtor (clairvoyant, clear-sighted, far sighted, wide awake), ager (active, acute, agile, clever, cute, fast, lively, mercurial, mettlesome, quick, sharp, shrewd, skilful, skillful, spirited, understanding), înţelept (advisedly, nestor, philosopher, philosophic, philosophical, politic, profound, prudent, ripe, sage, sapient, thinking, well advised, wise, wisely). (various references)

Russian		умный (able-minded, brainy, clever, cute, intelligent, knowledgeable, sharp-witted, smart, strong-minded, witted), проницательный (acute, as sharp as a needle, astute, clear-sighted, discerning, eagle-eyed, keen, long-headed, penetrating, perspicacious, piercing, politic, prescient, shrewd). (various references)

Scottish		tùrail (heedful, shrewd), glic (prudent, sage, wise). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mudar (astute, canny, discerning, oracular, politic, sage, sapient, well advised, wise). (various references)

Spanish		sagaz (canny, politic). (various references)

Swedish		skarpsinnig (acuate, acute, astute, discerning, discriminating, discriminative, discriminatory, infenious, keen, long-headed, penetrating, penetrative, perspicacious, sharp-witted), klok (advisable, clever, intelligent, judicious, long-headed, politic, prudent, sage, sane, sapient, sensible, shrewd, well advised, wise). (various references)

Tagalog		matalíno (sage, wise), marúnon (sage, wise). (various references)

Thai		เฉียบแหลม. (various references)

Turkish		sağgörülü (prudent, quick-eyed), isabetli (on the mark, pointed, well-directed), anlayışlı (comprehensive, considerate, discerning, gentle, heartthrob, indulgent, quick-eyed, receptive, understanding, wise), akilli (sage, wise), akıllıca (cleverly, intelligently, judicious, no-nonsense, sane, sensible, shrewd, wisely), akıllı (all there, astute, brainy, clever, cute, intelligent, knowing, knowledgeable, longheaded, reasonable, sage, sapient, sensible, smart, sparkling, spiritual, understanding, well advised, wise). (various references)

Ukranian		кмітливий (acute, alert, apprehensive, clever, cute, dexterous, grasping, intelligent, nimble, nimble-witted, quick, ready-witted), проникливий (acute, astute, cute, discerning, eagle-eyed, gleg, penetrative, perceptive, perspicacious, politic, profound, quick-sighted, sharp-sighted, shrewd), прозорливий (clairvoyant, far sighted, long sighted). (various references)

Vietnamese		thông minh (apprehensive, aptly, bright, comprehensive, intelligent, sharp-witted), minh mẫn khôn ngoan. (various references)

Welsh		craffus (keen), craff (acute, astute, close, grip, hold, keen). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	sapiens, sophus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sagacious": sagaciously, sagaciousness, sagaciousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sagacious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sabacious, Sabazius, sagacions, sagaciopus, sagacios, sagaciuous, sagacous, Saganiuk, sagatious, sagcious, sagecious, Saracouu, segacious, seggacious, sigacious. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "sagacious" (pronounced 'Sa*ga"cious'): Artificious, Astucious, Atrocious, Audacious, Auspicious, Autoecious, Avaricious, Bibacious, Capacious, Capricious, Cilicious, Contumacious, Convicious, Delicious, Dicacious, Disgracious, Edacious, Efficacious, Extispicious, Fallacious, Feracious, Ferocious, fugacious, Fumacious, Furacious, Glacious, gracious, heteroecious, inauspicious, Incapacious, inefficacious, Ingracious, injudicious, Inofficious, judicious, Linguacious, loquacious, luscious, Malgracious, malicious, mendacious, Meracious, meretricious, minacious, Misgracious, monoecious, mordacious, Multiplicious, Multiscious, Obstetricious, Officious, Omniscious, Overluscious, Overofficious, Palacious, Perspicacious, Pertinacious, Pervicacious, Petrosilicious, Phenicious, Phoenicious, Precocious, Prenuncious, Procacious, Pugnacious, Rampacious, rapacious, Retecious, salacious, Self-suspicious, semiprecious, Sequacious, Solacious, spacious, specious, suspicious, Synoecious, tenacious, Trioecious, Unauspicious, ungracious, Veracious, Vermicious, Vicious, Vivacious, Volacious, Voracious. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-g-i-o-s-s-u"
	-2 letters: guaiacs.
	-3 letters: cassia, guacos, guaiac, saigas.
	-4 letters: agios, ascus, assai, casas, casus, cusso, gauss, guaco, oasis, ossia, sagas, sagos, saiga, scags.
	-5 letters: agas, agio, asci, casa, ciao, cigs, cogs, coss, cuss, goas, ocas, ossa, sacs, saga, sago, sags, scag, sics, sous.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-g-i-o-s-s-u"
	+2 letters: sagaciously.
	+4 letters: sagaciousness.
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