Synonyms for Astute:

• adj.

  •Machiavellian (adjective)
  • more opportunist,
  • most opportunist.
  •acute (adjective)
  • in tenser,
  • in tensest,
  • in-tensest,
  • more acute,
  • in-tense,
  • in tense,
  • in-tenser,
  • observant.
  •all (adjective)
  • astute.
  •apt (adjective)
  • nobody's fool,
  • nobodys fool,
  • prompt,
  • quick on uptake,
  • quick the uptake,
  • teachable,
  • nobody fool,
  • quick trigger,
  • more talented,
  • more skilled,
  • quick the trigger,
  • quick uptake.
  •aware (adjective)
  • cognizant,
  • attentive,
  • familiar with,
  • conscious,
  • sentient,
  • aware,
  • feeling,
  • appreciative,
  • Apprised,
  • responsive,
  • mindful,
  • sensitive,
  • sensory.
  •bright (adjective)
  • having smarts,
  • wideawake,
  • Clear-headed,
  • eggheaded.
  •brilliant (adjective)
  • most knowledgeable,
  • pro found,
  • pro-founder,
  • whippest,
  • pro founder,
  • most genius,
  • pro-found,
  • more genius.
  •canny (adjective)
  • more nimble witted,
  • heppest,
  • more nimble-witted,
  • nimblewitted,
  • more careful,
  • most streetwise,
  • most nimble-witted,
  • most nimble witted,
  • more nimblewitted,
  • Worldlywise,
  • nimble witted,
  • slick,
  • most nimblewitted,
  • more streetwise.
  •clever (adjective)
  • dexterousdextrous,
  • dexterous dextrous,
  • many sided,
  • manysided,
  • dexterous-dextrous,
  • re sourceful,
  • most crackerjack,
  • most capable,
  • more crackerjack,
  • witty,
  • re-sourceful,
  • pro,
  • most egghead,
  • more egghead.
  •common-sense (adjective)
  • hard headed,
  • most hard-headed,
  • most hard headed,
  • more hard-headed,
  • matter-of-fact,
  • more hard headed,
  • levelheaded.
  •crafty (adjective)
  • dis ingenuous,
  • dis-ingenuous.
  •critical (adjective)
  • discriminating.
  •cunning (adjective)
  • snaky,
  • foxy,
  • ingenious,
  • fancy footwork,
  • sly boots,
  • masterful,
  • masterly,
  • feline,
  • serpentine,
  • devious,
  • quick,
  • deft,
  • smooth,
  • skillful,
  • slippery,
  • calculating,
  • wary,
  • scheming.
  •deceitful (adjective)
  • mis-leading,
  • hypo-critical,
  • under-hand,
  • un trustworthy,
  • mis leading,
  • more astucious,
  • most rascal,
  • more impostrous,
  • untruthful,
  • most impostrous,
  • more beguiling,
  • more rascal,
  • double-dealing,
  • un-truthful,
  • under handed,
  • most beguiling,
  • under hand,
  • most illusory,
  • two faced,
  • under-handed,
  • doubledealing,
  • un truthful,
  • most feline,
  • hypo critical,
  • most astucious,
  • more feline,
  • twofaced,
  • in-direct,
  • more deceiving,
  • un-trustworthy,
  • in direct,
  • most deceiving,
  • mendacious.
  •designing (adjective)
  • more conniving,
  • more conspiring,
  • un scrupulous,
  • un-scrupulous,
  • most conniving,
  • de-signing,
  • most conspiring,
  • de signing.
  •diplomatic (adjective)
  • more opportunistic,
  • most opportunistic.
  •discerning (adjective)
  • more clear-sighted,
  • in sighted,
  • most clearsighted,
  • more gnostic,
  • clear sighted,
  • in-sighted,
  • most clear sighted,
  • most clear-sighted,
  • more percipient,
  • most gnostic,
  • most percipient,
  • most insighted,
  • gnostic,
  • more clearsighted,
  • more clear sighted,
  • more insighted.
  •discriminating (adjective)
  • choicy,
  • discerning,
  • finical,
  • opinionated.
  •foxy (adjective)
  • most retiary,
  • more retiary,
  • dis honest,
  • dis-honest.
  •hard-nosed/hardheaded (adjective)
  • in tractable,
  • more hard nosed,
  • hard-nosed,
  • head strong,
  • in-tractable,
  • re solute,
  • most tough-nut,
  • most tough nut,
  • most toughnut,
  • re-solute,
  • more unsentimental,
  • toughnut,
  • hard boiled,
  • headstrong,
  • more toughnut,
  • un-yielding,
  • un yielding,
  • un sentimental,
  • more tough nut,
  • hard nosed,
  • most hardheaded,
  • most unsentimental,
  • more tough-nut,
  • un-sentimental.
  •hardheaded (adjective)
  • hardheaded.
  •insidious (adjective)
  • perfidious,
  • like a snake in the grass.
  •insightful (adjective)
  • under standing,
  • ear to ground,
  • under-standing,
  • knows whats what,
  • more penetrative,
  • ear ground,
  • ear the ground,
  • knows what what,
  • most penetrative.
  •intelligent (adjective)
  • erudite,
  • bright,
  • penetrating,
  • intellectual,
  • sophisticated,
  • genius,
  • keen,
  • encyclopedic,
  • Comprehending,
  • more intelligent,
  • worldly,
  • profound,
  • all there,
  • knowledgeable,
  • gifted,
  • cogent,
  • well-informed,
  • brainy,
  • capable.
  •intuitive (adjective)
  • instinctual,
  • far-sighted,
  • instinctive,
  • intuitive.
  •judicious (adjective)
  • more well judged,
  • more well-judged,
  • judicial,
  • more welljudged,
  • most well-judged,
  • well-judged,
  • far sighted,
  • most welljudged,
  • welljudged,
  • welladvised,
  • most well judged,
  • well judged.
  •keen (adjective)
  • sharp as tack.
  •knowing (adjective)
  • tuned-in,
  • Sophic,
  • witting,
  • with-it.
  •perceptive (adjective)
  • adroit.
  •pragmatical (adjective)
  • tough minded,
  • toughminded.
  •quick (adjective)
  • quickest,
  • smart as whip,
  • quick draw,
  • quick the draw,
  • quick on draw.
  •quick-witted (adjective)
  • most sharp sighted,
  • most sharpsighted,
  • more sharp-sighted,
  • sharpsighted,
  • more sharp sighted,
  • sharp sighted,
  • quickwitted,
  • quick witted,
  • most sharp-sighted,
  • more sharpsighted.
  •realistic (adjective)
  • most unfantastic,
  • most unidealistic,
  • un-fantastic,
  • un-idealistic,
  • un fantastic,
  • more unidealistic,
  • un idealistic,
  • more unfantastic.
  •reasonable (adjective)
  • common-sense.
  •sage (adjective)
  • fore sighted,
  • fore-sighted.
  •savvy (adjective)
  • in the know.
  •sensible (adjective)
  • more wellreasoned,
  • most wellreasoned,
  • well reasoned,
  • most well thought out,
  • most well-reasoned,
  • having one marbles,
  • having one's marbles,
  • having marbles,
  • more well reasoned,
  • having all ones marbles,
  • wellreasoned,
  • most well-thought-out,
  • more well-thought-out,
  • more well thought out,
  • more well-reasoned,
  • having all one marbles,
  • most well reasoned,
  • having ones marbles.
  •sharp (adjective)
  • smart as a tack.
  •sharp-witted (adjective)
  • more quick-thinking,
  • most quick thinking,
  • sharpwitted,
  • quickthinking,
  • sharp witted,
  • quick thinking,
  • most quickthinking,
  • most quick-thinking,
  • more quickthinking,
  • more quick thinking.
  •shrewd (adjective)
  • in side,
  • more argute,
  • sharkest,
  • wised up,
  • most argute,
  • shrewdest,
  • on inside,
  • Sharker.
  •sly (adjective)
  • dis-honorable,
  • most dissembling,
  • most bluffing,
  • more dissembling,
  • dis honorable,
  • more bluffing,
  • impish.
  •smart (adjective)
  • more long haired,
  • longhaired,
  • skullest,
  • skull,
  • more longhaired,
  • skuller,
  • long haired,
  • most long haired,
  • most longhaired,
  • most long-haired,
  • more long-haired.
  •street-smart (adjective)
  • streetsmart.
  •subtle (adjective)
  • ratiocinative.
  •thoughtful (adjective)
  • more observative,
  • most observative,
  • well bred,
  • well thoughtout,
  • un selfish,
  • co operative,
  • un-selfish,
  • wellbred.
  •tricky (adjective)
  • more witted,
  • wry,
  • most witted.
  •true-life (adjective)
  • true life,
  • truelife.
  •unromantic (adjective)
  • un romantic,
  • un-romantic.
  •well-balanced (adjective)
  • wellbalanced,
  • level headed,
  • well balanced.
  •wise (adjective)
  • more sensing,
  • wisest,
  • most sensing.
  •witty (adjective)
  • inventive,
  • droll,
  • joking,
  • waggish,
  • funny,
  • sparkling,
  • scintillating,
  • dry,
  • resourceful,
  • urbane,
  • comical,
  • pointed,
  • pithy,
  • scurrilous,
  • sarcastic,
  • facetious,
  • jocular.

• n.

  •
  • able,
  • academic.
  •
  • ability,
  • careful.
  •astute (noun)
  • smart.
  •common-sense (noun)
  • common sense.
  •crafty (noun)
  • artful.
  •keen (noun)
  • study atshrewd.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • cagey.
  •Other relevant words:
  • evasive,
  • good,
  • discriminatingly,
  • longsighted,
  • responsible,
  • circumspect,
  • alive,
  • balanced,
  • prescient,
  • promptly,
  • Sharp-witted,
  • fulgurating,
  • ingeniously,
  • Discerningly,
  • cannily,
  • listening,
  • sapient,
  • expert,
  • shifty,
  • stealthy,
  • machiavellian,
  • contrivance,
  • deeply,
  • learn,
  • readily,
  • conspiracy,
  • understandingly,
  • discreet,
  • informed,
  • entertain,
  • perceptively,
  • receptive,
  • hearken,
  • crooked,
  • tricksy,
  • lucid,
  • sharp-worded,
  • pawky,
  • rapidly,
  • caution,
  • artfully,
  • acuate,
  • agile,
  • wisely,
  • end,
  • piercing,
  • rogue,
  • far-seeing,
  • expeditiously,
  • hear,
  • acerbic,
  • Argute,
  • Subtile,
  • hairline,
  • stratagem,
  • listen,
  • guileful,
  • logical,
  • incisively,
  • foreseeing,
  • underhand,
  • scheme,
  • manipulative,
  • advise,
  • wide-awake,
  • commonsensical,
  • artificial,
  • Daedalian,
  • discretion,
  • Foxlike,
  • provident,
  • cunningly,
  • deep-laid,
  • reliable,
  • advert,
  • astringent,
  • sharply,
  • inquire,
  • cagy,
  • confabulate,
  • keenly,
  • perspicuous,
  • precocious,
  • intrigue,
  • adept,
  • vulpine,
  • mention,
  • appercipient,
  • dexterity,
  • negotiate,
  • wise man,
  • satiny,
  • conniving,
  • well-balanced,
  • calculated,
  • Subdolous,
  • get,
  • leery,
  • swiftly,
  • farseeing,
  • disingenuous,
  • heady,
  • long-headed,
  • sane,
  • politic,
  • worry,
  • economy,
  • rascal,
  • knave,
  • eagle-eyed,
  • quickly,
  • insightfully,
  • finishing line,
  • understanding,
  • cabal,
  • subtlety,
  • au fait,
  • Longheaded,
  • sober,
  • severely,
  • calculative,
  • knifelike,
  • thinking,
  • arch,
  • reasoning,
  • incisive,
  • wholesome,
  • crisp,
  • intelligently,
  • ruse,
  • hearing,
  • sagaciously,
  • precipitous,
  • forethoughtful,
  • imaginative,
  • refer,
  • smartly,
  • well-read,
  • cite,
  • allow,
  • deceit,
  • qualified,
  • shrill,
  • prudence,
  • practical,
  • intense,
  • hidden,
  • learned,
  • shrewdness,
  • sophistical,
  • scholarly,
  • observe,
  • strategic,
  • facile,
  • abrupt,
  • tactful,
  • acumen,
  • far end,
  • enlightened,
  • consult,
  • supple,
  • sword,
  • analytical,
  • street smart,
  • Keen-witted,
  • rapier,
  • slyly,
  • apperceptive,
  • awake,
  • reasonable,
  • considered,
  • intriguing,
  • trenchant,
  • plot,
  • alert,
  • sneaky,
  • refinement,
  • profoundly,
  • behind ones back,
  • speedily,
  • farsighted,
  • eavesdrop,
  • Trickish,
  • shrewdly,
  • astutely,
  • alive to,
  • foresighted,
  • tactical,
  • needlelike,
  • knowledgable,
  • Contriving,
  • sharpen,
  • cute,
  • adroitness,
  • useful,
  • timeserving,
  • right-minded,
  • judiciously,
  • underhanded,
  • not born yesterday,
  • undimmed,
  • rational,
  • clear-eyed,
  • not difficult,
  • acutely,
  • Plotting,
  • skilful,
  • up to snuff,
  • normal,
  • craftily,
  • harsh,
  • frugality,
  • well-advised,
  • cleverly,
  • on the ball,
  • sound,
  • plan,
  • artifice,
  • slim,
  • discriminative,
  • downy,
  • observational,
  • consider,
  • perspicaciously,
  • imp,
  • valid,
  • dexterous,
  • foresight,
  • attend.

Paraphrases for Astute:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    shrewd, clever, smarter.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    skilful, sensible, far-sighted, subtle, sophisticated, incisive, acute, skillful, sharp, sensitive, thoughtful, adroit, witty, keen, cute, savvy.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    intelligent, perceptive, insightful, smart, cunning, ingenious, discerning, wise, judicious, prudent, crafty.

Antonyms for Astute:

• adj.

  • perceptive
    obtuse, unintelligent, thick, inept, asinine, stupid.
  • Other antonyms:
    gullible, idiotic, feebleminded, blind, ingenuous, half-witted, brain dead, guileless, unknowing, foolish, silly, shallow, stolid, imbecile, artless, ignorant, innocent, thoughtless, moronic, undiscerning, uninformed, exploitable, naive.

Homophones for Astute:

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