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Antonyms for perspicacious

Grammar : Adj
Spell : pur-spi-key-shuhs
Phonetic Transcription : ˌpɜr spɪˈkeɪ ʃəs

Definition of perspicacious

Origin :
  • 1630s, formed as an adjective to perspicacity, from Latin perspicax "sharp-sighted, having the power of seeing through; acute" (see perspicacity). Related: Perspicaciously; perspicaciousness.
  • adj observant, perceptive
Example sentences :
  • He knew him to be nervous, on the one hand, and perspicacious on the other.
  • Extract from : « Cosmopolis, Complete » by Paul Bourget
  • Perhaps we can worm some information out of the perspicacious Jennie.
  • Extract from : « The Deep Lake Mystery » by Carolyn Wells
  • Such a policy was, of course, indicative of a shrewd and perspicacious mind.
  • Extract from : « Catherine de' Medici » by Honore de Balzac
  • Fortunately for you and for me, you are not so perspicacious in psychology as this young lady.
  • Extract from : « Csar or Nothing » by Po Baroja Baroja
  • She consulted with the perspicacious Mr. Harris, and especially sought from him detailed information as to partnership law.
  • Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
  • You are a perspicacious observer, Mr. Brocken; and to be that is to be alive in a world of the moribund.
  • Extract from : « Henry Brocken » by Walter J. de la Mare
  • But the fact that the Ghetto was perspicacious did not mitigate the author's treachery to his race and faith.
  • Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
  • “Perspicacious fellow,” muttered Jefferson, who did not like Charles Wilbraham.
  • Extract from : « Mystery at Geneva » by Rose Macaulay
  • All was precise and perspicacious, as is required in pleadings in the civil courts.
  • Extract from : « The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt » by David Miller DeWitt
  • The words you used in the presence of so grave and perspicacious a judge amounted to something very like this.
  • Extract from : « The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura » by Lucius Apuleius

Synonyms for perspicacious

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