astute

English

Etymology

Latin astūtus, from astus (“craft”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əsˈtjuːt/
• Rhymes: -uːt

Adjective

astute (comparative astuter, superlative astutest)

1. Quickly and critically discerning.
2. Shrewd or crafty.
   • 2014, A teacher, "Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents", The Guardian, 23 September 2014:

     The best headteachers are like submarine captains – cool-headed, astute decision-makers – who trust their colleagues and surroundings to indicate where their ship is headed.

Synonyms

• crafty, shrewd, wily

Derived terms

• astutely
• astuteness

Translations

Quick at seeing how to gain advantage

• Arabic: دَاهٍ‎ (dāhin) (indefinite), الدَّاهِي‎ (ad-dāhī) (definite)
• Basque: azeri (eu)
• Bulgarian: хитър (bg) (hitǎr), проницателен (bg) (pronicatelen)
• Catalan: astut (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 精明 (zh) (jīngmíng)

• Danish: dreven, kvik, skarpsindig
• Dutch: scherpzinnig (nl)
• Finnish: terävä (fi), neuvokas (fi)
• French: astucieux (fr), avisé (fr), sagace (fr)
• Frisian: skerpsinnig, listich
• German: gerissen (de), listig (de), scharfsinnig (de)
• Hungarian: ravasz (hu)

• Icelandic: slyngur, kænn (is), séður
• Irish: amhainseach (literary), amhnas (literary)
• Italian: avveduto (it)
• Japanese: 抜け目のない (ぬけめのない, nukemenonai)
• Maori: mūrere, pūmahara, kokoi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dreven, kvikk, skarpsindig, listig, slu

• Portuguese: astuto (pt)
• Russian: проница́тельный (ru) (pronicátelʹnyj), хи́трый (ru) (xítryj), сообрази́тельный (ru) (soobrazítelʹnyj)
• Spanish: astuto (es), sagaz (es), perspicaz (es)
• Swedish: skarpsinnig, knipslug (sv), listig (sv), slug (sv)
• Tagalog: tuso
• Turkish: basiretli (tr), keskin zekâlı

Anagrams

• statue

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Estonian

Verb

astute

1. Second-person plural present form of astuma.

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Italian

Adjective

astute

1. feminine plural of astuto

Anagrams

• statue

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Latin

Adverb

astūtē (comparative astūtius, superlative astūtissimē)

1. craftily, cunningly

References

• astute in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
• astute in Charlton T. Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891
• astute in Gaffiot, Félix, Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, 1934