Wise

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having the ability to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting; sagacious: a wise leader.
  • adj. Exhibiting common sense; prudent: a wise decision.
  • adj. Shrewd; crafty.
  • adj. Having great learning; erudite.
  • adj. Provided with information; informed. Used with to: was wise to the politics of the department.
  • adj. Slang Rude and disrespectful; impudent.
  • phrasal-verb. wise up Slang To make or become aware, informed, or sophisticated.
  • n. Method or manner of doing; way: in no wise; in any wise.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience.
  • adj. Disrespectful.
  • v. To become wise.
  • v. Usually with "up", to inform or learn.
  • n. Way, manner, method.
  • v. to instruct
  • v. to advise; induce
  • v. to show the way, guide
  • v. to direct the course of, pilot
  • v. to cause to turn
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having knowledge; knowing; enlightened; of extensive information; erudite; learned.
  • adj. Hence, especially, making due use of knowledge; discerning and judging soundly concerning what is true or false, proper or improper; choosing the best ends and the best means for accomplishing them; sagacious.
  • adj. Versed in art or science; skillful; dexterous; specifically, skilled in divination.
  • adj. Hence, prudent; calculating; shrewd; wary; subtle; crafty.
  • adj. Dictated or guided by wisdom; containing or exhibiting wisdom; well adapted to produce good effects; judicious; discreet.
  • adj. Way of being or acting; manner; mode; fashion.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Quite aware; knowing; cognizant of.
  • Having the power of discerning and judging rightly, or of discriminating between what is true and what is false, between that which is right, fit, and proper and that which is unsuitable, injudicious, and wrong; possessed of discernment, discretion, and judgment: as, a wise prince; a wise magistrate.
  • Proper to a wise man; sage; grave; serious.
  • Having knowledge; knowing; intelligent; enlightened; learned; erudite.
  • Practically or experimentally knowing; experienced; versed or skilled; dexterous; cunning; subtle; specifically, skilled in some hidden art, as magic or divination: as, the soothsayers and tho wise men.
  • Religious; pious; godly.
  • Dictated, directed, or guided by wisdom; containing wisdom; judicious: as, a wise saying; a wise scheme or plan; wise conduct or direction; a wise determination.
  • A midwife.
  • =Syn.1. Sagacious, discerning, oracular, long-headed. See wisdom.—6. Sound, solid, philosophical.
  • n. Way; manner; mode; guise; style: now seldom used as an independent word, except in such phrases as in any wise, in no wise, on this wise.
  • To guide; direct; lead or send in a particular direction.
  • To turn; incline; twist.
  • An apparent suffix, really the noun wiseused in adverbial phrases originally with a preposition, as in anywise, nowise, likewise, otherwise, etc., originally in any wise, in no wise, in like wise, in other wise, etc.; so sidewise, lengthwise, etc., in which, in colloquial use, -ways also appears, by confusion with way.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. evidencing the possession of inside information
  • adj. marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters
  • n. United States religious leader (born in Bohemia) who united reform Jewish organizations in the United States (1819-1900)
  • adj. improperly forward or bold
  • n. a way of doing or being
  • n. United States Jewish leader (born in Hungary) (1874-1949)
  • adj. having or prompted by wisdom or discernment
  • Equivalent
    informed    prudent    forward    omniscient    sapiential    sage    owlish    perspicacious    sagacious    sapient   
    Antonym
    unwise    foolish   
    Verb Form
    wised    wisely    wising   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    religious leader    fashion    style    way    manner    mode   
    Form
    -wise   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    knowing    enlightened    erudite    learned    sagacious    skillful    dexterous    calculating    shrewd    wary   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ais    Allies    Guise    Guys    Lise    Marseilles    Thais    advise    ais    allies   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    intelligent    old    prudent    reasonable    pious    dear    superior    easily    perfect    guilty