astute

English

Etymology

Latin astūtus, from astus ‘craft’.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /əsˈtjuːt/
Rhymes: -uːt

Adjective

astute (comparative astuter, superlative astutest)

Quickly and critically discerning.
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

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
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) m, avveduta (it) f
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

Estonian

Verb

astute

Second-person plural present form of astuma.

Italian

Adjective

astute

Feminine plural of adjective astuto.

Anagrams

statue

Latin

Adverb

astūtē (comparative astūtius, superlative astūtissimē)

craftily, cunningly

References

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

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