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wise |
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MO, abstruse, acute,
advantageous, advisable, alert, algorithm, all-knowing, angle, apperceptive, appercipient, apprehending, apprehensive, approach, appropriate, arrogant, artful, aspect, astute, attack,
aware, becoming, befitting, biggety, bold-faced, bold, brash, bright,
broad-minded, cagey, canny, cheeky, civilized, cocky, cogitative, cognizant, comprehending, configuration, congruous, conscious, contemplative, convenient, course, crafty, cultivated,
cultured, cunning, decent, deep, desirable, discerning, discreet, educated,
effect, eidolon, encyclopedic, erudite, expedient, facet, fashion, favorable,
feasible, feature, felicitous, figure, fit, fitten, fitting, flip, flippant, foresighted, form, forward, fresh, fructuous,
gestalt, gnostic, good,
grasping, guise, happy, hardheaded, hep, hoaxproof, image, imago, impertinent, impression, impudent, insightful, insolent, intelligent, intuitive, judicious, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, light, likely, likeness,
line, line of action, lineaments,
lines, lippy, literate,
look, manner, manner of working,
means, meet, method, methodology, mindful, mode, mode of operation, mode of procedure, modus, modus operandi, nervy, nimble-witted, not born yesterday, omniscient, on the beam, opportune, order, pansophic, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, pert, phase, phasis, politic, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, practical, practice, prehensile, procacious, procedure, proceeding, process, profitable, profound, proper, provident, prudent, quick-witted, quick, realistic, recommendable, reference, reflective, regard, respect, right, routine, sagacious, sage, sane, sapient, sassy,
saucy, scholarly, scholastic, seasonable, seeming, seemly, semblance, sensible, sensing, shape, sharp-witted,
sharp, shrewd, side, simulacrum, slant, slick, slippery, smart-alecky,
smart, smooth, sophic,
sophisticated, sortable, steel-trap, studious, style, suitable,
system, tack, tactical, technique, the drill, the how,
the way of, thoughtful, timely,
to be desired, tone, total effect, tough-minded, tricky, twist, uncullible, undeceivable, undeludable, understanding, undupable, unfoolable, ungullible, unhoaxable, unseduceable, useful, view, viewpoint, way, well-timed, wily, wise as Solomon, worthwhile
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wise guy |
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Gothamite, boldface, brazenface, chutzpanik, hussy, malapert, minx, pup, puppy, saucebox, smart-ass, smart aleck, smart ass, smarty-pants, smarty, swaggerer, upstart, whippersnapper, wise-ass, wise fool, wiseacre, wisehead, wiseling, wisenheimer, witling
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wise man |
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Brahmin, brain, brainworker, consciousness, egghead, head, highbrow, intellect, intellectual, intellectualist, intelligence, literate, mandarin, mentality,
savant, scholar, thinker, white-collar intellectual
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wise to |
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alive to, appreciative of, apprised of, awake to, aware of, behind the
curtain, behind the scenes, cognizant of, conscious of,
hep to, in the know, in the secret, informed of, let into, mindful of, no stranger to, on to, privy to, seized of,
sensible of, sensible to, streetwise, undeceived
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wise-ass |
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biggety, bluff, boldface,
brash, brazenface, cheeky,
chutzpadik, chutzpanik, cocky, contemptuous, crusty, derisive,
disrespectful, facy, flip,
flippant, fresh, gally,
gratuitous, hussy, impertinent, impudent, malapert, minx, nervy, pert, pup, puppy, rude, sassy, saucebox, saucy, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smart, smart aleck, smarty-pants, smarty, swaggerer, uncalled-for, upstart, whippersnapper, wise guy
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word to the wise |
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admonishment, admonition, advice, alarm, alerting, caution, caveat, clue, cue, deterrent example, example, final notice, final warning, hint, lesson, monition, moral, notice, notification, object lesson,
office, passing word, piece of advice, pointer, sap, steer,
threat, tip-off, tip,
ultimatum, verb, verbum sap, verbum sapienti, warning, warning piece, whisper, word of advice
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worldly-wise |
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blase, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, experienced, knowing, mature, matured, not born yesterday, old, practiced, ripe, ripened, sagacious, seasoned, sophisticated, tried, tried and true, veteran, world-wise, worldly
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Main entries similar to: wise
abstruse, acute, advantageous, advisable, algorithm,
angle, apprehensive, approach, appropriate, aspect, astute, attack, aware,
becoming, befitting, brilliant, broad-minded, civilized, clever, cognizant, comprehensive, configuration, congruous,
conscious, convenient, course, cultivated, cultured, decent, deep, desirable, diplomatic, discriminating,
educated, effect, eidolon, encyclopedic, erudite, expedient, experienced, facet, fashion, favorable, feasible, feature, felicitous, figure, fit, fitting, form, foxy,
fructuous, gestalt, good, grey, guise, happy, hardheaded, image,
impression, informed, insightful, insolent, intelligent, judicious, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, light, likely, likeness, line, lineaments, lines, literate, logical, look, manner, means, meet,
method, methodology, mindful, mode, modus operandi, nice, omniscient, opportune, order, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, phase, politic, practical, practice, prehensile, procedure, proceeding, process, profitable, profound, proper, provident, prudent, rational, realistic, reasonable, recommendable, reference,
regard, respect, right, ripe, routine, sagacious, sage, sane,
sapient, saucy, scholarly, scholastic, seasonable, seeming, seemly, semblance, sensible, shape, shrewd, side, simulacrum, slant, sophisticated, sound, studious, style,
suitable, system, tack, tactical, technique, timely, tone, twist,
understanding, useful, veteran, view, viewpoint, way, well-timed, worthwhile
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