astute, sharp, shrewd
(adjective) marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; “a smart businessman”; “an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease”; “he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
astute (comparative astuter, superlative astutest)
Quickly and critically discerning.
Shrewd or crafty.
• crafty, shrewd, wily
• statue
Source: Wiktionary
As*tute", a. Etym: [L. astutus, fr. astus craft, cunning; perh. cognate with E. acute.]
Definition: Critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty.
Syn.
– Keen; eagle-eyed; penetrating; skilled; discriminating; cunning; sagacious; subtle; wily; crafty. As*tute"ly, adv.
– As*tute"ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
