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Perspicacious vs. Perspicuous — What's the Difference?

Perspicacious vs. Perspicuous — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Perspicacious and Perspicuous

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Perspicacious

Having a ready insight into and understanding of things
It offers quite a few facts to the perspicacious reporter

Perspicuous

Clearly expressed or presented; easy to understand
Perspicuous prose.

Perspicacious

Having or showing penetrating mental discernment; clear-sighted.

Perspicuous

Expressing oneself clearly and effectively
A perspicuous lecturer.

Perspicacious

(figuratively) Of acute discernment; having keen insight; mentally perceptive.
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Perspicuous

Discerning; perspicacious.

Perspicacious

(obsolete) Able to physically see clearly; quick-sighted; sharp-sighted.

Perspicuous

Clearly expressed, easy to understand; lucid.

Perspicacious

Having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp of sight.

Perspicuous

(logic) (Of a language or notation) the process of inference from premises to conclusion is explicitly laid out.

Perspicacious

Fig.: Of acute discernment; keen.

Perspicuous

(rare) Transparent; translucent.

Perspicacious

Acutely insightful and wise;
Much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument
Observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions
A source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators

Perspicuous

Capable of being through; transparent; translucent; not opaque.

Perspicacious

Mentally acute or penetratingly discerning;
Too clear-eyed not to see what problems would follow
Chaos could be prevented only by clear-sighted leadership
Much too perspicacious to be taken in by so spurious an argument

Perspicuous

Clear to the understanding; capable of being clearly understood; clear in thought or in expression; not obscure or ambiguous; as, a perspicuous writer; perspicuous statements.

Perspicuous

(of language) transparently clear; easily understandable;
Writes in a limpid style
Lucid directions
A luculent oration
Pellucid prose
A crystal clear explanation
A perspicuous argument

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