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SAPIENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sapient mean?
• SAPIENT (adjective)
The adjective SAPIENT has 1 sense:
1. acutely insightful and wise
Familiarity information: SAPIENT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Acutely insightful and wise
Synonyms:
perspicacious; sagacious; sapient
Context example:
a source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators
Similar:
wise (having or prompted by wisdom or discernment)
Derivation:
sapience (ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight)
Context examples
“If he hold the herring he holds the scales, my sapient brother,” cried the fat man.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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