sagacious
/səˈɡeɪʃəs/
sagacious adjective: having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness; mentally shrewd.
Adjective
sagacious (comparative more sagacious, superlative most sagacious)
- Having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness; mentally shrewd.
- I resort, once again, to a sagacious adage from Justice Scalia […]2020 July 10, Ben Williams, “The U.S. Supreme Court and sexual orientation”, in The Mississippi Business Journal
- Synonyms:
- astute, clairvoyant, frood
sagacious meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
sagacious in Hindi
- having or showing keen discernment
- विचक्षण vicakṣaṇ
sagacious in Urdu
- sagacious
- ذہین zahīn
sagacious in Bengali
- প্রাত্যহিক কাজকর্মে বিজ্ঞ, বিচক্ষণ
sagacious in Malayalam
- ബുദ്ധിയുള്ള, ന്യായന്യായ വിവേചനമുള്ള, സാമർത്ഥ്യമുള്ള, ജ്ഞാനിയായ
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- sagacious in Kannada
- ಮುಂಗಾಣಬಲ್ಲ, ಚುರುಕು ತಿಬ್ಬಳಿಯ, ಚುರುಕು ಬುದ್ಧಿಯ, ತೀಕ್ಷ್ಣಮತಿಯಾದ
- sagacious in Odia
- ବିଚକ୍ଷଣ bicakṣaṇa
- sagacious in Sanskrit
- विचक्षण vicakṣaṇa
- sagacious in Thai
- เฉียบแหลม
Synonyms of sagacious
Forms of sagacious
| comparative | more sagacious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most sagacious |
Origin of sagacious
Coined between 1600 and 1610. Borrowed from Latin sagāx, + -acious.
Words formed from sagacious
Words that rhyme with sagacious
- gracious
- sequacious
- tenacious
- vexatious
- hellacious
- herbaceous
- ostentatious
- rapacious
- sebaceous
- vinaceous
- vivacious
- -aceous
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- acanthaceous
- alsinaceous
- audacious
- capacious
- contumacious
- cretaceous
- fallacious
- farinaceous
- flirtatious
- inefficacious
- juglandaceous
- mendacious
- micaceous
- orchidaceous
- perspicacious
- pertinacious
- salacious
- saponaceous
- spacious
- strobilaceous
- veracious
- voracious
- Acacius
- acinaceous
- alliaceous
- amentaceous
- amylaceous
- annonaceous
- apocynaceous
- argillaceous
- atramentaceous
- avenaceous
- bardacious
- bulbaceous
- camphoraceous
- camphrous
- carbonaceous
- cetaceous
- cucurbitaceous
- curvaceous
- dicacious
- edacious
- efficacious
- erinaceous
- fabaceous
- frumentaceous
- lamentacious
- lauraceous
Questions about sagacious
- What does sagacious mean?
- Sagacious means having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness; mentally shrewd.
- What is sagacious in Hindi?
- Sagacious in Hindi is विचक्षण (vicakṣaṇ). See Sagacious meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sagacious?
- Sagacious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce sagacious?
- Sagacious is pronounced /səˈɡeɪʃəs/.
Words near sagacious in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sagacious (page history and authors); ذہین (Urdu) (page history and authors); sagacious (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sagacious (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sagacious (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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