单词 | perspicacious |
释义 | perspicacious From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishperspicaciousper‧spi‧ca‧cious /ˌpɜːspɪˈkeɪʃəs◂ $ ˌpɜːr-/ adjective formalJUDGEgood at judging and understanding people and situations SYN perceptive —perspicaciously adverb —perspicacity /-ˈkæsəti/ noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpusperspicacious• Towards the end of the infantile period the child is becoming more perspicacious.• a perspicacious critic• Khrushchev may have been perspicacious enough to imagine the day when his turn would come and he would become Special Pensioner Khrushchev.Origin perspicacious (1600-1700) Latin perspicax, from perspicere; → PERSPECTIVE |
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