Sagacious vs Erudite - What's the difference?
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Having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness; mentally shrewd.
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Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.
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As adjectives the difference between sagacious and erudite
is that sagacious is having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness; mentally shrewd while erudite is learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.sagacious
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* sagaciously * sagaciousnessReferences
erudite
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(en adjective)- At all events, if it involved any secret information in regard to old Roger Chillingworth, it was in a tongue unknown to the erudite clergyman, and did but increase the bewilderment of his mind.
- Elmer Moffatt had been magnificent, rolling out his alternating effects of humour and pathos, stirring his audience by moving references to the Blue and the Gray, convulsing them by a new version of Washington and the Cherry Tree . . ., dazzling them by his erudite allusions and apt quotations.
Preaching Controversy," Time , 17 Sept.:
- Perhaps his erudite mind does not quite yet grasp how to transform his beloved scholarly explorations into effective papal politics.