| Main Entry: | acumen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to understand and reason |
Synonyms: |
acuity, acuteness, astuteness, awareness, brains, brilliance, cleverness, comprehension, cunning, discernment, discrimination, farsightedness, good taste, grasp, guile, ingenuity, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, keenness, perception, percipience, perspicacity, perspicuity, refinement, sagacity, sensitivity, sharpness, shrewdness, smartness, smarts, understanding, vision, wisdom, wit |
| Notes: | acumen suggests that keenness relates to a person's mind, whereas acuity suggests that it relates to a person's performance; acumen is something that a person has, whereas acuity is something that a person displays |
Antonyms: |
denseness, ignorance, inability, ineptness, obtuseness, stupidity |
| Main Entry: | depth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insight, wisdom |
Synonyms: |
acuity, acumen, astuteness, brain, discernment, intellect, intelligence, keenness, penetration, profoundness, profundity, sagacity, sense, sharpness, weightiness |
| Main Entry: | intelligence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to perceive, understand |
Synonyms: |
IQ, acuity, acumen, agility, alertness, aptitude, brainpower, brains, brightness, brilliance, capacity, cleverness, comprehension, coruscation, discernment, gray matter, intellect, judgment, luminosity, mentality, mind, penetration, perception, perspicacity, precocity, quickness, quotient, reason, sagacity, savvy, sense, skill, smarts, subtlety, the right stuff, trenchancy, understanding, what it takes, wit |
Antonyms: |
ignorance, inability, ineptness |
| Main Entry: | smarts |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intelligence |
Synonyms: |
IQ, acuity, acumen, alertness, aptitude, brainpower, brains, brightness, brilliance, cleverness, competence, comprehension, gray matter, intellect, judgment, know-how, mind, perception, perspicacity, precocity, reason, savvy, sense, the right stuff, understanding, what it takes |
| Main Entry: | vigilance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | carefulness |
Synonyms: |
acuity, alertness, attention, attentiveness, caution, circumspection, diligence, lookout, observance, surveillance, vigil, watch, watchfulness |
Antonyms: |
carelessness, impulsiveness, indiscretion, negligence |
| Main Entry: | profoundness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depth |
Synonyms: |
acuity, acumen, astuteness, brain, deepness, discernment, intellect, intelligence, keenness, penetration, profundity, sagacity, sense, sharpness, weightiness |
| Concept: | Depth. |
| Category: | 2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
depth; deepness; profundity, depression (concavity)., hollow, pit, shaft, well, crater; gulf; bowels of the earth, botttomless pit, hell., soundings, depth of water, water, draught, submersion; plummet, sound, probe; sounding rod, sounding line; lead.
-verbs
be deep; render deep; deepen., plunge; sound, heave the lead, take soundings; dig (excavate).
-adjectives
deep, deep seated; profound, sunk, burried; submerged; subaqueous, submarine, subterranean, subterrene; underground., bottomless, soundless, fathomless; unfathomed, unfathomable; abysmal; deep as a well; bathycolpian; benthal, benthopelagic; downreaching, yawning., knee deep, ankle deep.
-adverbs
beyond one's depth, out of one's depth; over head and ears.
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Antonyms: |
shallowness |
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