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Sapient

adjective
1.
Acutely insightful and wise.  Synonyms: perspicacious, sagacious.  "Observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions" , "A source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators"





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"Sapient" Quotes from Famous Books



... we-all calls 'mountain lions,'" observed the Old Cattleman, wearing meanwhile the sapient air of him who feels equipped of his subject, "is plenty furtive, not to say mighty sedyoolous to skulk. That's why a gent don't meet up with more of 'em while pirootin' about in the hills. Them cats hears him, or they sees him, an' him still ignorant tharof; an' with that ...
— Wolfville Nights • Alfred Lewis


Words linked to "Sapient" :   wise, sapience


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