perspicacious
/ˌpəːspɪˈkeɪʃəs
/adjective
Having a ready insight into and understanding of things: it offers quite a few facts to the perspicacious reporter...
- Would the webmaster like to comment on why my posting in this thread, which I considered to be insightful and perspicacious, was deleted?
- But you're not going to be reading this book for any perspicacious insight into the human condition.
- The feline anecdote was just one of a number of insights so perspicacious they subsequently acted as threads throughout the rest of the conference.
Derivatives
perspicaciously
- Women don't have the same bits as men, he says perspicaciously.
- The poet perspicaciously told him, ‘the trouble with you is you don't know that art is a commodity.’
- As he has noted so perspicaciously elsewhere, ‘it is easy to overlook the reliance of an expanding economy on this humble commodity’.
perspicaciousness
Origin
Early 17th century: from Latin perspicax, perspicac- 'seeing clearly' + -acious.
Rhymes
- non-electric
- non-electrical
- non-electrified
- non-electrolyte
- non-electrolytic
- non-electronic
- non-emergency
- non-emotional
- non-employed
- non-employment
- non-emptiness
- non-empty
- nonene
- non-enforcement
- non-ens
- non-entanglement
- non-entitative
- non-entitious
- non-entitous
- nonentity
- non-entry
- reinstitution
- reinstruct
- reinsurance
- reinsure