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Definition of sapient in English: sapientadjective ˈseɪpɪəntˈseɪpiənt 1formal Wise, or attempting to appear wise. 〈正式〉贤明的，睿智的；装作聪明的 members of the female quarter were more sapient but no less savage than the others Example sentencesExamples - The attentive and sapient reader will no doubt see what's coming here.
- One thing though, I'd never before so personally perceived nature's absolute mastery at using the unwitting collaboration of its sapient members to mimic its fungal elements.
- This may sound extremely unfair to our esteemed police force, to the hardworking prosecutors at the Attorney General's Office and the sapient judges who preside over our courts.
- At the very far end of the rostrum one could just discern a tribunal of sapient figures seated around a table.
- One was meant, as I'm sure the sapient looseletter will have noticed, for much finer things, much more noble pursuits.
Synonyms wise, sensible, prudent, politic, shrewd, astute, canny, sagacious, common-sense, commonsensical, sound, well advised, well judged, well thought out, considered, thoughtful, perceptive, discerning, clear-sighted, insightful, far-sighted, percipient, discriminating, informed, intelligent, clever, enlightened, logical, rational - 1.1 (chiefly in science fiction) intelligent.
（主要指科幻小说中）智能的 智能生命形式。 Example sentencesExamples - In the wake of their travels, they have left half of the galaxy devoid of sapient life, primarily through the use of their Marauder starships.
Synonyms penetrating, acute, sharp, sharp-witted, razor-sharp, keen, rapier-like, astute, shrewd, trenchant, piercing, perceptive, insightful, percipient, perspicacious, discerning, analytical, intelligent, canny, clever, smart, quick
2Relating to the human species (Homo sapiens ) （与）人类（有关）的 our sapient ancestors of 40,000 years ago 我们四万年前的智人祖先。 Example sentencesExamples - Perhaps in a brief quiet contemplation that this same view was experienced by our modern sapient ancestors over 164,000 years ago.
noun ˈseɪpɪəntˈseɪpiənt A human of the species Homo sapiens. （人类中的）人 Example sentencesExamples - As for my fellow sapients, I have no desire to control their actions.
Derivativesnoun ˈseɪpɪənsˈseɪpiəns It acknowledges the sapience of country to the extent that country is figured as a registry of births, marriages, deaths and other events. Example sentencesExamples - As much experience is prudence, so is much science sapience.
- Their catalogue is one of effort and sapience, of care and cool.
- With much sapience, he ruled that the categorical imperative of the situation was that charity begins at home and the guilty party must pay for his own beer that evening.
- Of course, this suggestion will seem absurd if we are still tempted to assimilate sapience to sentience, thus to think of sensations as the objects of ‘immediate’ knowledge.
adverb This is the reiterated message from the gods of which the daily press delivers itself so sapiently, and by which it maintains its popularity and power.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin sapient- 'being wise', from the verb sapere. Definition of sapient in US English: sapientadjectiveˈseɪpiəntˈsāpēənt 1formal Wise, or attempting to appear wise. 〈正式〉贤明的，睿智的；装作聪明的 Example sentencesExamples - One thing though, I'd never before so personally perceived nature's absolute mastery at using the unwitting collaboration of its sapient members to mimic its fungal elements.
- The attentive and sapient reader will no doubt see what's coming here.
- One was meant, as I'm sure the sapient looseletter will have noticed, for much finer things, much more noble pursuits.
- This may sound extremely unfair to our esteemed police force, to the hardworking prosecutors at the Attorney General's Office and the sapient judges who preside over our courts.
- At the very far end of the rostrum one could just discern a tribunal of sapient figures seated around a table.
Synonyms wise, sensible, prudent, politic, shrewd, astute, canny, sagacious, common-sense, commonsensical, sound, well advised, well judged, well thought out, considered, thoughtful, perceptive, discerning, clear-sighted, insightful, far-sighted, percipient, discriminating, informed, intelligent, clever, enlightened, logical, rational - 1.1 (chiefly in science fiction) intelligent.
（主要指科幻小说中）智能的 智能生命形式。 Example sentencesExamples - In the wake of their travels, they have left half of the galaxy devoid of sapient life, primarily through the use of their Marauder starships.
Synonyms penetrating, acute, sharp, sharp-witted, razor-sharp, keen, rapier-like, astute, shrewd, trenchant, piercing, perceptive, insightful, percipient, perspicacious, discerning, analytical, intelligent, canny, clever, smart, quick
2Relating to the human species (Homo sapiens) （与）人类（有关）的 our sapient ancestors of 40,000 years ago 我们四万年前的智人祖先。 Example sentencesExamples - Perhaps in a brief quiet contemplation that this same view was experienced by our modern sapient ancestors over 164,000 years ago.
nounˈseɪpiəntˈsāpēənt A human of the species Homo sapiens. （人类中的）人 Example sentencesExamples - As for my fellow sapients, I have no desire to control their actions.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin sapient- ‘being wise’, from the verb sapere. |