sagacious
贤明,贤明的,明智的,贤明的人
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- : having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd: Socrates, that sagacious Greek philosopher, believed that the easiest way to learn was by asking questions.
- : Obsolete. having an acute sense of smell.
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The environmentalist movement that was cultivated here has given rise to an entire generation of engineers, scientists, and designers who have started to pay closer attention to the ways that nature can be the most sagacious teacher.
When storm clouds start to form, sagacious leaders deal with them before things get out of hand.
Houses innumerable had been built for it on deck, but the sagacious animal had a rooted antipathy to restraint.
They had not gone far before the sagacious animal began to bark.
Caroline tells her friends things which she thinks exceedingly flattering, but which cause a sagacious husband to make a wry face.
The sapajous are very sagacious and dexterous: they go in companies, and mutually warn and assist each other.
But he was a firm, sagacious leader, with the personal magnetism to attract devotion.