Meaning of ASTUTE
| Pronunciation: | | u'stoot
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| | Definition: | | [adj] marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow" |
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| | Synonyms: | | sharp, shrewd, smart |
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| | Definition: | | \As*tute"\, a. [L. astutus, fr. astus craft, cunning;
perh. cognate with E. acute.]
Critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty.
Syn: Keen; eagle-eyed; penetrating; skilled; discriminating;
cunning; sagacious; subtle; wily; crafty. {As*tute"ly},
adv. -- {As*tute"ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | acute, adroit, alert, apperceptive, appercipient, arch, argute, artful, cagey, calculating, canny, clever, cogent, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, designing, diplomatic, discerning, discreet, farseeing, farsighted, feline, foreseeing, foresighted, forethoughted, forethoughtful, foxy, guileful, heady, incisive, ingenious, insidious, insightful, intelligent, inventive, judicious, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, longheaded, longsighted, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, observant, pawky, penetrating, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, perspicuous, piercing, politic, provident, prudent, quick, quick-witted, ready, resourceful, sagacious, sage, savvy, scheming, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, tactical, trenchant, trickish, tricksy, tricky, underhand, underhanded, understanding, vulpine, wary, wily, wise |
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