Another word for wise
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Adjective
Possessing or showing sound judgment and keen perception
- Having great wisdom and discernment.
- One venerated for experience, judgment, and wisdom.
- Having or exhibiting wisdom and calm judgment.
- Proceeding from or marked by wisdom and calm judgment:
- Having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness.
- Possessing knowledge, information, or understanding:
- Showing clever awareness and resourcefulness; shrewd and worldly:
- Suggestive of secret or private knowledge:
See also:Possessing, proceeding from, or exhibiting good judgment and prudence
- Adequately versed in a subject.
- Having a sound basis; well-founded.
- Based on sound judgment, reasoning, or evidence; adequately substantiated:
- Vibrations transmitted through an elastic solid or a liquid or gas, with frequencies in the approximate range of 20 to 20,000 hertz, capable of being detected by human organs of hearing.
- Transmitted vibrations of any frequency.
- The sensation stimulated in the organs of hearing by such vibrations in the air or other medium.
- Acting with or exhibiting good judgment; reasonable:
- Not ornate or impractical:
- Having a perception of something; cognizant:
- Having great wisdom and discernment.
- Of sound mind; mentally healthy:
- Having or showing sound judgment; reasonable.
- One venerated for experience, judgment, and wisdom.
- Having or exhibiting wisdom and calm judgment.
- Proceeding from or marked by wisdom and calm judgment:
- Having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness.
- Capable of reasoning; rational:
- Governed by or being in accordance with reason or sound thinking:
- Being within the bounds of common sense:
- Having or exercising the ability to reason.
- Consistent with or based on reason or good judgment; logical or sensible:
- Of sound mind; sane:
- Careful or wise in handling practical matters; exercising good judgment or common sense:
- Characterized by or resulting from care or wisdom in practical matters or in planning for the future:
- Characteristically self-composed and sensible.
- Having or exhibiting sound judgment; prudent.
- Displaying common sense.
- Referring to electrical symmetry. A balanced line or balanced medium such as twisted pair, in which both twisted pair conductors serve for signal transmission and reception. Each conductor carries a similar electrical signal with identical direct and return current paths.At any given point in the cable, the signals are equal in voltage to ground but opposite in polarity, which has the effect of reducing radiated energy and, therefore, reducing attenuation. See also unbalanced and UTP.
- Referring to symmetrical relationship. For example, the X.25 protocol suite includes Link Access Procedure-Balanced (LAP-B), a balanced protocol that operates in Asynchronous Balanced Mode (ABM), which refers to the fact that the devices have a balanced, rather than a master/slave, relationship.Therefore, a device at either end of the link can initiate a dialogue at any time. See also ABM, LAP-B, master/slave, and X.25.
Having or showing a clever awareness and resourcefulness in practical matters
- Well informed and perceptive; shrewd:
- Knowledgeable or proficient. Often used in combination:
- Practical understanding or shrewdness:
- Having or showing intelligence; bright.
- Canny and shrewd in dealings with others:
- Amusingly clever; witty:
- Smooth, glossy, and slippery:
- Deftly executed; adroit:
- Confident and effortlessly effective, especially in being persuasive:
- Having or showing a clever awareness or resourcefulness, especially in practical matters.
- Disposed to or marked by artful and cunning practices; tricky.
- Sharp; penetrating:
- Having or showing penetrating mental discernment; clear-sighted.
- Possessing knowledge, information, or understanding:
- Showing clever awareness and resourcefulness; shrewd and worldly:
- Suggestive of secret or private knowledge:
- Careful and shrewd, especially where one's own interests are concerned.
- Cautious in spending money; frugal.
- Steady, restrained, and gentle.
- Wary; careful:
- Crafty; shrewd:
- Having or showing shrewdness and discernment, especially with respect to one's own concerns.
Having or showing profound knowledge and scholarship
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of scholarship:
- Having or showing a strong interest in scholarship or learning.
- Educated to read and write; literate.
- Highly educated; learned.
- Of or relating to literacy or learning.
- Having profound, often systematic knowledge; erudite.
- Showing or characterized by such knowledge:
- Acquired by learning or experience:
- Having or showing great knowledge or learning.
See also:Marked by comprehension, cognizance, and perception
- The laterally projecting prominence of the pelvis or pelvic region from the waist to the thigh.
- A homologous posterior part in quadrupeds.
- The hip joint.
- Having sense perception; conscious:
- Experiencing sensation or feeling.
- Acting with or exhibiting good judgment; reasonable:
- Not ornate or impractical:
- Having a perception of something; cognizant:
- Fully informed; conscious.
- Having knowledge or discernment of something:
- Attentive and well informed:
- Vigilant; watchful.
- To rouse from sleep; waken:
- To make aware of:
- To stir up (memories, for example).
- Having life; living.
- In existence or operation; active:
- Full of living or moving things; abounding:
Rude and disrespectful
- Haughty or presumptuous, especially for one's rank or social standing:
- Not complacent or deferential; strongly self-assertive:
- Uppity.
- Sharp-tongued; impertinent:
- Occurring in pieces; fragmentary.
- Made up of snippets.
- Snippy; impertinent.
- Having the quality of a smart-aleck; rude, disrespectful
- New to one's experience; not encountered before:
- Unusual or different:
- Recently made, produced, or harvested; not stale or spoiled:
- To throw or toss with a light brisk motion:
- To toss in the air, imparting a spin:
- To cause to turn over or around, especially with a light quick motion:
- Made of or decorated with brass.
- Resembling brass, as in color.
- Resembling or characterized by the sound of brass instruments:
- Having or showing intelligence; bright.
- Canny and shrewd in dealings with others:
- Amusingly clever; witty:
- Impertinent or disrespectful, especially in a playful or lively way:
- Attractive or stylish, especially in being sexually alluring:
- Having the consistency of or covered with sauce:
- Rude and disrespectful; impudent.
- Lively and spirited; jaunty.
- Stylish; chic:
- Disagreeably aggressive or forward.
- Going beyond what is right or proper; excessively forward:
- Having or showing excessive and arrogant self-confidence; presumptuous.
- High-spirited, lively, or cheerful:
- Impudently bold; saucy:
- Attractive or stylish in appearance:
- Excessively confident; presumptuous.
- Arrogantly impudent; brazen.
- Showing or requiring courage and fortitude; bold.
- Jumpy; nervous.
- Impudently bold in speech or manner; saucy.
- An impudent, saucy person.
- Audaciously rude or disrespectful; impertinent or impudent.
- Presumptuous and insulting in manner or speech; arrogant.
- Offensively bold or disrespectful; insolent or impertinent.
- Immodest.
- Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold:
- Not pertinent:
- At, near, or belonging to the front or forepart; fore:
- Located ahead or in advance:
- Going, tending, or moving toward a position in front:
- Often encountered or seen:
- Having fair knowledge; acquainted:
- Of established friendship; intimate:
- rude in a contemptuous way; insulting and humiliating
- Impertinently bold; impudent and saucy.
- Unrestrained by a sense of shame; rudely bold.
- Having a loud, usually harsh, resonant sound:
- Made of brass.
- Presumptuously forward; impudent:
- Hasty or unrestrained without regard for consequences:
- Arresting, pronounced, or ostentatious:
- impudent or forward in manner
- boldface
- Fearless and daring; courageous:
- Requiring or exhibiting courage or daring:
- Unduly forward and brazen; impudent:
- Fearlessly, often recklessly daring; bold.
- Unrestrained by convention or propriety; brazen or insolent:
- Spirited and original:
- Characterized by assumption.
- Taken for granted; assumed.
- Presumptuous; assuming.
- Presumptuous; arrogant.
- On the assumption that; supposing:
Noun
The approach used to do something
- A road, path, or highway affording passage from one place to another.
- An opening affording passage:
- Space to proceed:
- An organism as a whole, especially with regard to its vital processes or functions:
- A group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts:
- A group of interacting mechanical or electrical components:
- The way in which something is said, done, expressed, or performed:
- The combination of distinctive features of literary or artistic expression, execution, or performance characterizing a particular person, group, school, or era.
- Sort; type:
- A method of operating or functioning.
- A person's manner of working.
- A manner, way, or method of doing something, experiencing something, or acting:
- A particular form or kind:
- A given condition of functioning; a status or operation:
- A means or manner of procedure, especially a regular and systematic way of accomplishing something:
- Orderly arrangement of parts or steps to accomplish an end:
- The procedures and techniques characteristic of a particular discipline or field of knowledge:
- A way of doing something or the way in which a thing is done or happens:
- A way of acting; bearing or behavior:
- The socially correct way of acting; etiquette:
- The prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior:
- Something, such as a garment, that is in the current mode:
- Manner or mode; way:
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Another word for wise
Modifier
Judicious
- The ability by which one understands; intelligence:
- The quality or condition of one who understands; comprehension:
- Individual or specified judgment or outlook; opinion:
- Of or relating to perception:
- Having the ability to perceive; keen in discernment.
- Marked by discernment and understanding; sensitive.
- Having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness.
- Mentally quick and original; bright:
- Skilled at accomplishing things, especially with the hands:
- Crafty; cunning:
Shrewd
- Skilled in or marked by underhandedness, deviousness, or deception.
- Skillful; dexterous.
- Marked by or given to artful subtlety and deceptiveness.
- Executed with or exhibiting ingenuity.
- Delicately pleasing; pretty or cute:
- Capable of performing calculations:
- Shrewd; crafty:
- Coldly scheming or conniving.
See also:Prudent
- On guard; watchful:
- Characterized by caution:
- Acting with or exhibiting good judgment; reasonable:
- Not ornate or impractical:
- Having a perception of something; cognizant:
- Possessing or exhibiting tact; considerate and discreet:
Erudite
- Having or showing intelligence; bright.
- Canny and shrewd in dealings with others:
- Amusingly clever; witty:
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of scholarship:
- Having or showing a strong interest in scholarship or learning.
- Possessing or showing knowledge or intelligence; perceptive and well-informed.
*Impudent
- Having or showing intelligence; bright.
- Canny and shrewd in dealings with others:
- Amusingly clever; witty:
- Overly self-assertive or self-confident.
- Causing anger, displeasure, or resentment:
- Disagreeable to the senses:
- Making a physical or military attack:
- At, near, or belonging to the front or forepart; fore:
- Located ahead or in advance:
- Going, tending, or moving toward a position in front:
- Fearless and daring; courageous:
- Requiring or exhibiting courage or daring:
- Unduly forward and brazen; impudent:
See also:
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