Astute vs Observational - What's the difference?
astute | observational |
quickly and critically discerning
shrewd or crafty
* 2014 , A teacher, "
(science) Based on or pertaining to scientific observation.
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Pertaining to observation in general.
As adjectives the difference between astute and observational
is that astute is quickly and critically discerning while observational is (science) based on or pertaining to scientific observation.astute
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(er)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, wilyDerived terms
* astutely * astutenessAnagrams
* ----observational
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Adjective
(en adjective)- An alternative way of defending the proposal to conflate NP MOVEMENT with XP MOVEMENT would be to question the observational adequacy of the claim that NP MOVEMENT only ever has NP constituents as its target. Sentences such as the following (from Radford (1981), p. 210) might be used to support the claim that NP MOVEMENT can indeed ‘raise? constituents other than NP:
(23) (a) [AP Rather plump''] seems — to be how he likes his girlfriends
(23) (b) [PP ''In Paris''] seems — to be where they first met
(23) (c) [ADVP ''A little too casually''] seems — to have been how he addressed the judge
(23) (d) [CP ''For the Prime Minister to resign ] would seem — to be unthinkable