Thesaurus / sapient
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On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sapient, such as: acute, astucious, astute, cagey, canny, and clear-sighted.
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Some affirm that he wrote to please royalty, but if so why did he not condemn the custom to appease the wrath of a sapient king.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.Therefore why be sapient and solemn about it, like an editorial in a newspaper?
THE TRAGIC MUSEHENRY JAMESOne sapient editor said that the pearls in the mussels in Salmon and Connecticut Rivers caused the disturbance.
MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF OUR OWN LAND, COMPLETECHARLES M. SKINNERAs this sapient precept dropped oracularly from his lips, a word at a time, his figure faded and turned pale.
THE MAN-WOLF AND OTHER TALESEMILE ERCKMANN AND ALEXANDRE CHATRIANYou are really inimitable, you stern guardians of morals and most sapient defenders of the immaculateness of the State!
QUINTUS CLAUDIUS, VOLUME 2 OF 2ERNST ECKSTEIN"I'll talk it over with Nancy again," and the big black sun-bonnet nodded with sapient significance.
A MAID OF THE SILVER SEAJOHN OXENHAM"Dead, dead easy," he reiterated, with the unction of enjoyment in his sapient superiority.
SCARLETT OF THE MOUNTEDMARGUERITE MERINGTONThere was a sapient inquirer, recently deceased, who had a short way out of this difficulty.
FALLING IN LOVEGRANT ALLEN"It never does to poke your finger into a bird's nest," observed Elsie, with a sapient shake of the head.
IN THE HIGH VALLEYSUSAN COOLIDGEIt seems to me, most sapient monarch, to involve considerably more trouble and annoyance than that of Adimantus.
THE WORKS OF LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA, V. 4LUCIAN OF SAMOSATAWORDS RELATED TO SAPIENT
- accurate
- acute
- astute
- calculating
- careful
- cautious
- circumspect
- clear-sighted
- considerate
- considered
- diplomatic
- discerning
- discreet
- discriminating
- efficacious
- enlightened
- expedient
- far-sighted
- informed
- judicial
- keen
- perceptive
- perspicacious
- politic
- profound
- prudent
- quick-witted
- rational
- reasonable
- sagacious
- sage
- sane
- sapient
- seasonable
- seemly
- sensible
- sharp
- shrewd
- skillful
- sober
- sophisticated
- sound
- thorough
- wary
- well-advised
- well-judged
- worldly-wise
- abstruse
- academic
- accomplished
- bookish
- brainy
- conversant
- cultivated
- cultured
- deep
- educated
- erudite
- esoteric
- experienced
- expert
- grave
- grounded
- highbrow
- in the know
- intellectual
- judicious
- lettered
- literary
- literate
- omniscient
- pansophic
- pedantic
- philosophic
- philosophical
- polymath
- professorial
- recondite
- sage
- sapient
- scholarly
- scientific
- sharp
- skilled
- solemn
- solid
- sound
- studied
- studious
- versed
- well-educated
- well-grounded
- well-read
- well-rounded
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