sagacious
having keen practical judgment and discernment
Word origin: From Latin sagax, keen of perception.
Sagacious in a sentence
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Her sagacious investments steadily grew the family fortune.
A sagacious investor, she recognized the bubble forming long before her peers grew uneasy.
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The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.
Using “sagacious” well
Sagacious describes keen practical judgment and discernment, a wisdom proven in real decisions rather than mere book learning. The related noun is sagacity.
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