Coined between 1600 and 1610. Borrowed fromLatinsagāx, +‎-ious.

• IPA^(key):/səˈɡeɪʃəs/

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• Rhymes:-eɪʃəs

sagacious (comparativemoresagacious,superlativemostsagacious)

1. Having or showingkeendiscernment,soundjudgment, andfarsightedness; mentallyshrewd.
   • 2020 July 10, Ben Williams, “The U.S. Supreme Court and sexual orientation”, inThe Mississippi Business Journal:

     I resort, once again, to asagacious adage from Justice Scalia […]

• astute
• clairvoyant
• frood

• sagaciously
• sagaciousness

• sagacity

• “sagacious”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “sagacious”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
• “sagacious”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.