Explore Sagacious through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like sapient or wise. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Sagacious in a sentence
Sagacious meaning
Having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness; mentally shrewd.
Using Sagacious
- The main meaning on this page is: Having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness; mentally shrewd.
- Useful related words include: perspicacious, sapient, wise, politic.
- In the example corpus, sagacious often appears in combinations such as: the sagacious, sagacious enough.
Context around Sagacious
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 8 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sagacious
- In this selection, "sagacious" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, odyssey, politically, apparently, enough, craftsman and counsellor stand out and add context to how "sagacious" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include are politically sagacious with the and as a sagacious counsellor is. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sagacious" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sagacious
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Abd al-Rahman was apparently sagacious enough to expect such a plot. (12 words)
Afterward, go to the southern area to find the second involved person, the Sagacious Craftsman. (15 words)
His primary role as a sagacious counsellor is “to be consulted, to warn and to encourage”. (16 words)
One aspect of Walpole's original definition of serendipity, often missed in modern discussions of the word, is the need for an individual to be "sagacious" enough to link together apparently innocuous facts in order to come to a valuable conclusion. (41 words)
The police that rushed to name Major Aditya in the Shopian case FIR, preferred to withhold the name of the newspaper, which the sagacious readers of the State identify themselves with for being their voice. (35 words)
And in comparison with the highest orders of men, the Africans will stand so low as to make the difference which subsists between themselves & the sagacious beasts inconsiderable" Emerson, Ralph Waldo, and William H. Gilman. (35 words)
Example sentences (11)
Afterward, go to the southern area to find the second involved person, the Sagacious Craftsman.
His primary role as a sagacious counsellor is “to be consulted, to warn and to encourage”.
The sage became conscious of his responsibility to operationalize his initiatives that would transform society, and that was the turning point of his sagacious disposition to everything.
Here we find the words Homer applies to Ulysses, the same descriptions applied to the hero of the Odyssey: sagacious, cunning, astute, shrewd, artful, crafty, deceitful, tricky.
Both are politically sagacious, with the younger GYB excelling with political distinctions from the political college of the National Leader of APC.
The police that rushed to name Major Aditya in the Shopian case FIR, preferred to withhold the name of the newspaper, which the sagacious readers of the State identify themselves with for being their voice.
Abd al-Rahman was apparently sagacious enough to expect such a plot.
And in comparison with the highest orders of men, the Africans will stand so low as to make the difference which subsists between themselves & the sagacious beasts inconsiderable" Emerson, Ralph Waldo, and William H. Gilman.
In his Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmorland Wordsworth called Burke "the most sagacious Politician of his age" whose predictions "time has verified".
One aspect of Walpole's original definition of serendipity, often missed in modern discussions of the word, is the need for an individual to be "sagacious" enough to link together apparently innocuous facts in order to come to a valuable conclusion.
Ruthless, crude, and hard-working, he had a "sagacious business sense" and was a superb manager of men.
Common combinations with sagacious
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: