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Sagacious vs Scintillating - What's the difference?

sagacious | scintillating |

As adjectives the difference between sagacious and scintillating

is that sagacious is having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness; mentally shrewd while scintillating is that scintillates with brief flashes of light; sparkling.

As a verb scintillating is

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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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    scintillating

    English

    Verb

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    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That scintillates with brief flashes of light; sparkling.
  • * 1994 , (Edward St Aubyn), Bad News , Picador 2006, p. 147:
    • On the scintillating water yellow and blue boats bobbed up and down.
  • * 2012 , (The Economist), 13 Oct 2012, Obituary: Nguyen Chi Thien , citing (Nguyen Chi Thien)
    • They sank me into the ocean / Wishing me to remain in the depths. / I became a deep sea diver / And came up covered with scintillating pearls.
  • Brilliantly or impressively clever, exciting, amusing or witty.
  • * 1864 , (Edgar Allen Poe),
    • Her sketches and tales may be said to be cleverly written. They are lively, easy, conventional, scintillating with a species of sarcastic wit, which might be termed good were it in any respect original.
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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 29, author=Ian Hughes, work=BBC
    • , title= Southampton 1-2 Man Utd , passage=The hosts maintained their discipline and shape, even threatening to grab a second goal on the break - left-back Dan Harding made a scintillating run, skipping past a few challenges before prodding a right-footed shot that did not match his build-up. }}