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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