🧐perspicacious

Meaning

Having a ready insight into and understanding of things.

Having keen insight and understanding; showing acute mental discernment.

Example Sentences

The perspicacious student quickly understood the complex problem.

The detective's perspicacious nature helped solve the mystery.

Synonyms

insightful, perceptive, shrewd, astute, clever, sharp

Entry 1

insightful, perceptive, shrewd, astute, clever

Entry 2

insightful, perceptive, sharp

Antonyms

ignorant, dull, slow, unobservant, slow-witted

Entry 1

ignorant, dull, slow

Entry 2

unobservant, dull, slow-witted

Collocations

perspicacious mind, perspicacious analysis, perspicacious observer, perspicacious comment