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Synonyms for wise
adj intelligent, reasonable- astute
- aware
- careful
- educated
- enlightened
- experienced
- informed
- judicious
- knowledgeable
- perceptive
- prudent
- rational
- sane
- sensible
- shrewd
- smart
- thoughtful
- wary
- well-informed
- contemplative
- cunning
- grasping
- keen
- knowing
- sage
- sensing
- sharp
- sound
- understanding
- calculating
- clever
- cogitative
- crafty
- discerning
- discreet
- erudite
- foresighted
- insightful
- intuitive
- perspicacious
- politic
- reflective
- sagacious
- sapient
- scholarly
- sophic
- tactful
- taught
- witty
Antonyms for wise
- 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
- blunt
- dull
- kind
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.
aware
adjective. knowledgeable
- acquainted
- alert
- alive
- appraised
- appreciative
- apprehensive
- apprised
- attentive
- au courant
- awake
- cognizant
- conscious
- cool
- enlightened
- familiar
- go-go
- groovy
- grounded
- heedful
- hip
- in the know
- in the picture
- informed
- into
- know the score
- know what's what
- know-how
- knowing
- latched on
- mindful
- on the beam
- on to
- perceptive
- plugged in
- receptive
- savvy
- sensible
- sentient
- sharp
- tuned in
- up on
- wise
- wise to
- wised up
- with it
canny
adjective. clever, artful
- able
- acute
- adroit
- astute
- cagey
- careful
- cautious
- circumspect
- cunning
- dexterous
- discreet
- foxy
- frugal
- having fancy footwork
- hep
- ingenious
- intelligent
- judicious
- knowing
- nimble-witted
- perspicacious
- prudent
- quick
- quick-witted
- sagacious
- shrewd
- skillful
- slick
- slippery
- sly
- smart
- smooth
- street smart
- streetwise
- subtle
- wary
- watchful
- wise
- with it
- worldly-wise
clever
adjective. bright, ingenious
- able
- adept
- adroit
- alert
- apt
- astute
- brainy
- brilliant
- cagey
- canny
- capable
- competent
- crackerjack
- cunning
- deep
- dexterous/dextrous
- discerning
- egghead
- expert
- foxy
- gifted
- good
- handy
- intelligent
- inventive
- keen
- knowing
- knowledgeable
- many-sided
- nimble
- nobody's fool
- pretty
- pro
- qualified
- quick
- quick on trigger
- quick-witted
- rational
- resourceful
- sagacious
- savvy
- sensible
- sharp
- shrewd
- skilled
- skillful
- slick
- sly
- smart
- sprightly
- talented
- versatile
- wise
- witty
cleverest
adjective. bright, ingenious
- able
- adept
- adroit
- alert
- apt
- astute
- brainy
- brilliant
- cagey
- canny
- capable
- competent
- crackerjack
- cunning
- deep
- dexterous/dextrous
- discerning
- egghead
- expert
- foxy
- gifted
- good
- handy
- intelligent
- inventive
- keen
- knowing
- knowledgeable
- many-sided
- nimble
- nobody's fool
- pretty
- pro
- qualified
- quick
- quick on trigger
- quick-witted
- rational
- resourceful
- sagacious
- savvy
- sensible
- sharp
- shrewd
- skilled
- skillful
- slick
- sly
- smart
- sprightly
- talented
- versatile
- wise
- witty
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.