SAGACIOUS
sagacious
(adjective) skillful in statecraft or management; “an astute and sagacious statesman”
perspicacious, sagacious, sapient
(adjective) acutely insightful and wise; “much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument”; “observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions”; “a source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
sagacious (comparative more sagacious, superlative most sagacious)
Having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness; mentally shrewd.
Synonyms
• frood
Source: Wiktionary
Sa*ga"cious, a. Etym: [L. sagax, sagacis, akin to sagire to perceive
quickly or keenly, and probably to E. seek. See Seek, and cf.
Presage.]
1. Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a
trail.
Sagacious of his quarry from so far. Milton.
2. Hence, of quick intellectual perceptions; of keen penetration and
judgment; discerning and judicious; knowing; far-sighted; shrewd;
sage; wise; as, a sagacious man; a sagacious remark.
Instinct . . . makes them, many times, sagacious above our
apprehension. Dr. H. More.
Only sagacious heads light on these observations, and reduce them
into general propositions. Locke.
Syn.
– See Shrewd.
– Sa*ga"cious*ly, adv.
– Sa-ga"cious*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition