Canny vs Perspicacious - What's the difference?
canny | perspicacious | Synonyms |
Careful, prudent, cautious.
Knowing, shrewd, astute.
Frugal, thrifty.
(Scotland, Northumbria) Pleasant, fair.
* 1783 , (Robert Burns), "Green Grow the Rashes O", Songs and Ballads
(Northumbria) Very or much.
(figuratively) Of acute discernment; having keen insight; mentally perceptive.
(obsolete) Able to physically see clearly; quick-sighted; sharp-sighted.
Canny is a synonym of perspicacious.
As adjectives the difference between canny and perspicacious
is that canny is careful, prudent, cautious while perspicacious is (figuratively) of acute discernment; having keen insight; mentally perceptive.canny
English
Adjective
(er)- (Ramsay)
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- She's a canny lass hor like!
- But gie me a cannie hour at e'en,
- My arms about my dearie O;
- An' warl'y cares, an' warl'y men,
- Mae a' gae tapsalteerie O!
- That's a canny big horse, man!