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Sagacious vs Callow - What's the difference?

sagacious | callow |

As adjectives the difference between sagacious and callow

is that sagacious is having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness; mentally shrewd while callow is (obsolete) bald.

As a noun callow is

a callow young bird.

sagacious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness; mentally shrewd.

    • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * sagaciously * sagaciousness

    Related terms

    * sagacity

    References

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    callow

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (obsolete) Bald.
  • Unfledged (of a young bird).
  • * Dryden
    • And in the leafy summit spy'd a nest, / Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed.
  • Immature, lacking in life experience.
    • Those three young men are particularly callow youths.
  • Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis). Teneral.
  • Shallow or weak-willed.
  • Unburnt (of a brick)

    • Noun

  • A callow young bird.
  • A callow or teneral phase of an insect or other arthropod, typically shortly after ecdysis, while the skin still is hardening, the colours have not yet become stable, and as a rule, before the animal is able to move effectively.

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