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单词 perspicacious
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Definition of perspicacious in English:

perspicacious

adjective ˌpəːspɪˈkeɪʃəsˌpərspəˈkeɪʃəs
  • Having a ready insight into and understanding of things.

    敏锐的,有洞察力的

    it offers quite a few facts to the perspicacious reporter

    这为敏锐的记者提供了相当多的事实。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Second, I regularly have lunch with a few perspicacious psychologists and faculty members in other disciplines.
    • But you're not going to be reading this book for any perspicacious insight into the human condition.
    • I believe that, being quite perspicacious and witnessing his friends and coworkers being arrested, he understood clearly that he would not be spared for long.
    • If only the writer had stepped out of his own sport and background and viewed it more impersonally, then he could have written something a little more engaging and perspicacious.
    • The feline anecdote was just one of a number of insights so perspicacious they subsequently acted as threads throughout the rest of the conference.
    • Granted, she did the same, but in a more perspicacious, subtle way, one that didn't scream ‘Look at me, I did a good job!’
    • His book is an engaging and perspicacious exploration of the many facets, in Britain and abroad, of the old amateur game.
    • Physically small, these works are less about bold noise than intimate nuance, which demands a perspicacious eye.
    • The point is elaborated by the perspicacious professor a little later.
    • Would the webmaster like to comment on why my posting in this thread, which I considered to be insightful and perspicacious, was deleted?
    • The author of the newsletter was a perspicacious young lass.
    • I was just wondering if maybe my perspicacious words had finally ruffled the princess's feathers.
    • In a quieter way, it shows how a man perspicacious enough to see these faults in his former comrades can fail to see them still lurking within himself.
    • Even more likely, it could be deliberate misdirection, a Nabokovian wink the author shares with the reader perspicacious enough to call his bluff.
    • The fears expressed by this perspicacious mouthpiece of the French ruling class are far from exaggerated.
    • I am perspicacious enough to reconcile the fact that not all of you fine people share my perspective.
    • She could tell, perspicacious as she was, that Harriet was dying to tell her something but needed the information to be directly elicited.
    • If only our parents could have been perspicacious enough to see our talent and force us into showbiz.
    • He has written the most complete, perspicacious, and moving book that has been published to date on the Francoist repression.
    • This former town librarian was perspicacious in acquiring paintings by Jack B. Yeats and his circle.
    Synonyms
    astute, sharp-witted, sharp, acute, intelligent, clever, alert, canny, media-savvy, perceptive, observant, discriminating, sagacious, sage, wise, far-seeing, far-sighted
    discerning, shrewd, perceptive, astute, penetrating, observant, percipient, sharp-witted, sharp, quick, quick-witted, keen-witted, alert, clear-sighted, sharp-sighted, clear-eyed, far-sighted, far-seeing, acute, clever, canny, intelligent, insightful, judicious, wise, sagacious, sage, sensitive, intuitive, understanding, open-eyed, aware, thinking, discriminating

Derivatives

  • perspicaciously

  • adverb
    • Women don't have the same bits as men, he says perspicaciously.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The poet perspicaciously told him, ‘the trouble with you is you don't know that art is a commodity.’
      • From his home in London on August 7, 1862, Karl Marx wrote a letter to Frederick Engels which perspicaciously summed up the situation.
      • He consistently demonstrates his ability perspicaciously to elaborate on a given scene, theme, or aspect of his novels or short stories.
      • As he has noted so perspicaciously elsewhere, ‘it is easy to overlook the reliance of an expanding economy on this humble commodity’.
  • perspicaciousness

  • noun

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin perspicax, perspicac- 'seeing clearly' + -acious.

Rhymes

Athanasius, audacious, bodacious, cactaceous, capacious, carbonaceous, contumacious, Cretaceous, curvaceous, disputatious, edacious, efficacious, fallacious, farinaceous, flirtatious, foliaceous, fugacious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, Ignatius, loquacious, mendacious, mordacious, ostentatious, pertinacious, pugnacious, rapacious, sagacious, salacious, saponaceous, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, spacious, tenacious, veracious, vexatious, vivacious, voracious

Definition of perspicacious in US English:

perspicacious

adjectiveˌpərspəˈkeɪʃəsˌpərspəˈkāSHəs
  • Having a ready insight into and understanding of things.

    敏锐的,有洞察力的

    it offers quite a few facts to the perspicacious reporter

    这为敏锐的记者提供了相当多的事实。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I am perspicacious enough to reconcile the fact that not all of you fine people share my perspective.
    • She could tell, perspicacious as she was, that Harriet was dying to tell her something but needed the information to be directly elicited.
    • Granted, she did the same, but in a more perspicacious, subtle way, one that didn't scream ‘Look at me, I did a good job!’
    • The author of the newsletter was a perspicacious young lass.
    • In a quieter way, it shows how a man perspicacious enough to see these faults in his former comrades can fail to see them still lurking within himself.
    • The fears expressed by this perspicacious mouthpiece of the French ruling class are far from exaggerated.
    • He has written the most complete, perspicacious, and moving book that has been published to date on the Francoist repression.
    • This former town librarian was perspicacious in acquiring paintings by Jack B. Yeats and his circle.
    • Physically small, these works are less about bold noise than intimate nuance, which demands a perspicacious eye.
    • The point is elaborated by the perspicacious professor a little later.
    • If only the writer had stepped out of his own sport and background and viewed it more impersonally, then he could have written something a little more engaging and perspicacious.
    • Even more likely, it could be deliberate misdirection, a Nabokovian wink the author shares with the reader perspicacious enough to call his bluff.
    • I was just wondering if maybe my perspicacious words had finally ruffled the princess's feathers.
    • Would the webmaster like to comment on why my posting in this thread, which I considered to be insightful and perspicacious, was deleted?
    • If only our parents could have been perspicacious enough to see our talent and force us into showbiz.
    • I believe that, being quite perspicacious and witnessing his friends and coworkers being arrested, he understood clearly that he would not be spared for long.
    • But you're not going to be reading this book for any perspicacious insight into the human condition.
    • Second, I regularly have lunch with a few perspicacious psychologists and faculty members in other disciplines.
    • His book is an engaging and perspicacious exploration of the many facets, in Britain and abroad, of the old amateur game.
    • The feline anecdote was just one of a number of insights so perspicacious they subsequently acted as threads throughout the rest of the conference.
    Synonyms
    astute, sharp-witted, sharp, acute, intelligent, clever, alert, canny, media-savvy, perceptive, observant, discriminating, sagacious, sage, wise, far-seeing, far-sighted
    discerning, shrewd, perceptive, astute, penetrating, observant, percipient, sharp-witted, sharp, quick, quick-witted, keen-witted, alert, clear-sighted, sharp-sighted, clear-eyed, far-sighted, far-seeing, acute, clever, canny, intelligent, insightful, judicious, wise, sagacious, sage, sensitive, intuitive, understanding, open-eyed, aware, thinking, discriminating

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin perspicax, perspicac- ‘seeing clearly’ + -acious.

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