Definitions for sagacious

sagacious sa·ga·cious

Spelling: [suh-gey-shuh s]
IPA: /səˈgeɪ ʃəs/

Sagacious is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 193 anagrams from letters in sagacious (aacgiossu).

Definitions for sagacious

adjective

  1. having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd:
  2. Obsolete. keen of scent.

Origin of sagacious

First recorded in 1600-10; sagaci(ty) + -ous

Examples for sagacious

The sagacious lady may possibly be as curious in this point as her Lovelace.

He was as silent and sagacious as Sarah was talkative and empty-headed.

Yet this vanity may be a mean, perhaps, to overthrow me with this sagacious lady.

Whatever else they were, they proved to be careful and sagacious leaders.

As a statesman he was prudent, wise, sagacious, far-seeing and true.

It was just a sagacious, courageous, wily, resolute—animal face.

When storm clouds start to form, sagacious leaders deal with them before things get out of hand.

She took an early opportunity of sending this too sagacious rustic to bed.

"I know that thing," he muttered to himself, with a sagacious jerk of the head.

George was a “deep, sagacious file,” who studied men like books.

Word Value for sagacious
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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