What does Astute mean?

Definitions for Astute
əˈstut, əˈstyutas·tute

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. astute, sharp, shrewdadjective

    marked by practical hardheaded intelligence

    "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow"

Wiktionary

  1. astuteadjective

    quickly and critically discerning

  2. astuteadjective

    shrewd or crafty

  3. Etymology: Latin astūtus, from astus ‘craft’.

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  1. astute

    Astute refers to someone who is sharp-minded, clever, or quick-witted, especially in practical matters or in understanding and making judgements. It also implies a keen sense of insight, understanding, or discernment.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Astuteadjective

    critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Astute

    ast-ūt′, adj. crafty: cunning: shrewd: sagacious.—adv. Astute′ly.—n. Astute′ness.—The adj. Astū′cious, adv. Astū′ciously, and n. Astū′city are all rare. [L. astutusastus, crafty, akin perhaps to Acute.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Astute in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Astute in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Astute in a Sentence

  1. The Washington Post:

    Given Putin's background -- a trained career KGB officer -- Vladimir Putin has a very astute and sophisticated understanding of the tools that Vladimir Putin can use to interfere with our election process and to sow discord and distrust, which Vladimir Putin is doing fairly well.

  2. Kelly Dittmar:

    It is an organization that has been around for a long time, in terms of institutional clout and power and influence, i think the organization itself has proven itself to be a very astute and strong political power, both in mobilizing women voters and young women voters and also in funding candidates.

  3. James Scott:

    There has been a failure in moral courage by the technologically astute to step in and lead, selflessly. There's always a product pitch at the end of whitepapers. We need to remove the product pitches and replace it with objective and viable action steps

  4. Mike McGlone:

    It appears Paulson was astute to lighten up some before the July plunge, they may have been part of the massive liquidation in July too.

  5. Keith Pogson:

    There is a clear distinction between investment outflows that will ultimately lead to foreign direct investment in China, and hot money that's gone forever, the ChemChina deal is a very astute transaction and we will continue to see a fairly high level of such transactions, and this is not contrary to the outflow control objective.

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