wise

adj

1. sagacious, sage, intelligent, discerning, penetrating, perceptive; perspicacious, percipient, insightful, sapient, long-headed, shrewd; smart, rational, reasonable, gash, judicious, politic, prudent, discreet, commonsensical; sensible, sound, sane, well-balanced, balanced; bright, brilliant, sharp-witted, quick-witted, competent, capable; gifted, talented, well-endowed, brainy, sapiential.

2. educated, learned, enlightened, instructed, well-schooled; well-read, versed, knowledgeable, erudite; philosophical, Solomonic, pansophic, deep, profound; knowing, lettered, scholarly, deep-thinking, bookish.

3.Slang. informed, Sl. hip, Sl. hep, Sl. in the know, knowing, up on; posted, briefed, instructed, up-to-date, Fr. au courant.

4. advisable, well-advised, expedient, politic; fit, seeming, proper, meet, decorous; judicious, commendable, desirable, fitting, befitting; strategic, safe, diplomatic, calculated, careful, tactful, well-thought-out.

5.Slang. impudent, insolent, impertinent, saucy, fresh, pert; disrespectful, rude, Inf. smart, Inf. smart-alecky, Inf. cocky, Dial. sassy.

n

way, manner, fashion, mode, method, procedure, course; approach, attack, technique.