| 单词 | sapient |
| 释义 | sapient (once / 10155 pages) adj Use the adjective sapient to describe someone who always gives the smartest advice, like your brilliant, insightful teacher or your wise little brother. Calling someone sapient is a compliment, since it means "insightful and wise," although it's often used in a sarcastic way: "My sapient adviser said I should major in Communications." The phrase "sapient life forms" shows up frequently in science fiction, as well. The Latin root is the verb sapere, "to be wise," which is also the origin of sapiens, "wise man," as in Homo sapiens, or the human species. WORD FAMILYsapient: sapience, sapienter, sapiently+/sapience: sapiences USAGE EXAMPLESAlthough a hydroelectric dam might seem a sapient energy solution, it can mean ecocide to a 'specient' mind — one with species sense. Nature(May 07, 2016) Some of the laws included in the Bill: universal rights for human beings, sentient artificial intelligences, cyborgs, and other advanced sapient life forms. Salon(Feb 19, 2016) But there they are all without exception, back at the job, and all as sapient and complacent as they were the time before. BBC(Feb 12, 2016) adj acutely insightful and wise a source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators Syn perspicacious, sagacious wise having or prompted by wisdom or discernment |
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