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sagacious
What does sagacious mean?
sagacious (adjective): acutely insightful and wise.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use sagacious in a sentence?
- Observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce sagacious?
/səˈɡeɪʃəs/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does sagacious come from?
Coined between 1600 and 1610.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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very large; of vast measure
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