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Wise   /waɪz/   Listen
Wise

adjective
(compar. wiser; superl. wisest)
1.
Having or prompted by wisdom or discernment.  "A wise and perceptive comment"
2.
Marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters.  Synonyms: heady, judicious.  "A wise decision"
3.
Evidencing the possession of inside information.  Synonyms: knowing, wise to.
4.
Improperly forward or bold.  Synonyms: fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, sassy, saucy, smart.  "Impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup" , "An impudent boy given to insulting strangers" , "Don't get wise with me!"
noun
1.
A way of doing or being.  "In this wise"
2.
United States Jewish leader (born in Hungary) (1874-1949).  Synonym: Stephen Samuel Wise.
3.
United States religious leader (born in Bohemia) who united reform Jewish organizations in the United States (1819-1900).  Synonym: Isaac Mayer Wise.



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"Wise" Quotes from Famous Books



... making a wry nose and taking a cigarette; "I'm accustomed to it. But you're wise to fumigate the air; one is n't in ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... know he's a sensible young skeesicks. That's how. See here, Betty, you've gotten hold of wrong ideas about this place. You don't understand the position of affairs. Your aunt didn't till I put her wise." ...
— The Prince and Betty - (American edition) • P. G. Wodehouse
... "A wise idea. I think there is where I made my mistake. I did not figure carefully enough on the strength of material. The internal pressure of the powder I used, as well as the muzzle velocity of my projectile, were both greater than they should have been. Take a lesson from my failure. But I am going ...
— Tom Swift and his Giant Cannon - or, The Longest Shots on Record • Victor Appleton
... that the Wise Man of our ages speaks (for we have him,—we do not wait for him), in the act of displaying a little, and folding up for the future, his plan of a Scientific Human Culture; it is to these that he speaks when ...
— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon
... says all people known as Quakers Among us, now condemned to suffer death Or any corporal punishment whatever, Who are imprisoned, or may be obnoxious To the like condemnation, shall be sent Forthwith to England, to be dealt with there In such wise as shall be agreeable Unto the English law and their demerits. Is it ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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