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Definition of sapient in English: sapientadjective ˈseɪpɪəntˈseɪpiənt 1formal Wise, or attempting to appear wise. 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.
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 ) our sapient ancestors of 40,000 years ago 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. Example sentencesExamples - As for my fellow sapients, I have no desire to control their actions.
Derivatives noun 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.
Origin Late 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. 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.
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) our sapient ancestors of 40,000 years ago 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. Example sentencesExamples - As for my fellow sapients, I have no desire to control their actions.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin sapient- ‘being wise’, from the verb sapere. |