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adv
With the power of seeing or understanding clearly; quick-sightedly; with sharp of sight.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adv
With acute discernment; keenly; with mental perception.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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History
Etymology tree English perspicacious Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English perspicaciously From perspicacious + -ly.
Across languages
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