sagacious
suh-GAY-shusadjMeaning wise, with sound judgment drawn from experience
Memory hook SAGGY ears that know the way. In the dry season, the old elephant with saggy, wrinkled ears leads the herd straight to the hidden water hole: she is sagacious.
The sagacious old captain could read the coming weather in the clouds.
In context Faced with a hard choice, the young queen turned to her most sagacious adviser, who had guided the kingdom wisely through forty years of trouble.
Similar wise, sage, shrewd, perceptive
Opposite foolish, unwise
From Latin sagax, “keen, quick to notice,” first said of dogs with a sharp sense of smell.