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 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

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

III Up now, answer me, on your mettle Wisest man of the Mermaid Inn, Soberest man on the old black settle, Out with the truth!

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Noyes, Alfred

On such an eve, his palest beam he cast, When—Athens! here thy Wisest looked his last.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley