wisest

ADJECTIVE

intelligent, reasonable

Synonyms

STRONGEST

astute aware careful educated enlightened experienced informed judicious knowledgeable perceptive prudent rational sane sensible shrewd smart thoughtful wary well-informed

STRONG

contemplative cunning grasping keen knowing sage sensing sharp sound understanding

WEAK

calculating clever cogitative crafty discerning discreet erudite foresighted insightful intuitive perspicacious politic reflective sagacious sapient scholarly sophic tactful taught witty

Antonyms

STRONGEST

careless foolish heedless idiotic ignorant inattentive incautious indiscreet inexperienced insensitive irrational obtuse reckless senseless stupid thoughtless unaware uneducated uninformed unintelligent unknowledgeable unrealistic unreasonable unsophisticated unsound unwise

STRONG

blunt dull kind

Example Sentences

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Wisest move: eliminating Desdemona as an onstage character.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2016

Wisest of all, he persisted with Hershiser in the treacherous moment of that last 5-2 victory, when the choirboy was so spooked he actually sang hymns.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wisest Vienna gossips were all repeating the same story: Weeks of excited shouting that Adolf Hitler was preparing another armed coup in Austria had finally roused Great Britain.

From Time Magazine Archive

Allow me to tell you, madam," he said, "that although I am a frog I am the Greatest and Wisest Frog in all the world.

From The Lost Princess of Oz by Neill, John R. (John Rea)

But the king answered: 'O thou Wisest One, Who know'st what was, and is, and is to be, Still one more grace!

From Indian Poetry Containing "The Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanskrit of the Gîta Govinda of Jayadeva, Two books from "The Iliad Of India" (Mahábhárata), "Proverbial Wisdom" from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa, and other Oriental Poems. by Arnold, Edwin, Sir