sharp as a tack
adjective
Roget 498:
intelligent
[Applied to persons],
quick of apprehension,
keen,
acute,
alive,
brainy,
awake,
bright,
quick,
sharp;
quick witted,
keen witted,
clear witted,
sharp-eyed,
sharp sighted,
sharp witted;
wide-awake;
canny,
shrewd,
astute;
clear-headed;
farsighted
etc.
510;
discerning,
perspicacious,
penetrating,
piercing;
argute†;
quick-witted,
nimble-witted,
needle-witted;
sharp as a needle,
sharp as a tack;
alive to
etc.
(cognizant)
490;
clever
etc.
(apt)
698;
arch
etc.
(cunning)
702;
pas si bete [Fr.];
acute
etc.
682.
wise,
sage,
sapient,
sagacious,
reasonable,
rational,
sound,
in one's right mind,
sensible,
abnormis sapiens [Lat.],
judicious,
strong-minded.
unprejudiced,
unbiased,
unbigoted†,
unprepossessed†;
undazzled†,
unperplexed†;
unwarped judgment†,
impartial,
equitable,
fair.
cool;
cool-headed,
long-headed,
hardheaded,
strong-headed;
long-sighted,
calculating,
thoughtful,
reflecting;
solid,
deep,
profound.
oracular;
heaven-directed,
heaven-born.
prudent
etc.
(cautious)
864;
sober,
stand,
solid;
considerate,
politic,
wise in one's generation;
watchful
etc.
459;
provident
etc.
(prepared)
673;
in advance of one' age;
wise as a serpent,
wise as Solomon,
wise as Solon.
[Applied to actions]
wise,
sensible,
reasonable,
judicious;
well-thought-out,
well-planned,
well-judged,
well-advised;
prudent,
politic;
expedient
etc.
646.
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Roget 702:
cunning,
crafty,
artful;
skillful
etc.
698;
subtle,
feline,
vulpine;
cunning as a fox,
cunning as a serpent;
deep,
deep laid;
profound;
designing,
contriving;
intriguing
etc.
v.;
strategic,
diplomatic,
politic,
Machiavelian,
timeserving†;
artificial;
tricky,
tricksy†;
wily,
sly,
slim,
insidious,
stealthy;
underhand
etc.
(hidden)
528;
subdolous†;
deceitful
etc.
545;
slippery as an eel,
evasive
etc.
623;
crooked;
arch,
pawky†,
shrewd,
acute;
sharp,
sharp as a tack,
sharp as a needle†;
canny,
astute,
leery,
knowing,
up to snuff,
too clever by half,
not to be caught with chaff.
tactful,
diplomatic,
politic;
polite
etc.
894.
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Roget 253:
sharp,
keen;
acute;
acicular,
aciform†;
aculeated†,
acuminated†;
pointed;
tapering;
conical,
pyramidal;
mucronate†,
mucronated†;
spindle shaped,
needle shaped;
spiked,
spiky,
ensiform†,
peaked,
salient;
cusped,
cuspidate,
cuspidated†;
cornute†,
cornuted†,
cornicultate†;
prickly;
spiny,
spinous†,
spicular;
thorny,
bristling,
muricated†,
pectinated†,
studded,
thistly,
briary†;
craggy
etc.
(rough)
256;
snaggy,
digitated†,
two-edged,
fusiform [Micro.];
dentiform†,
denticulated;
toothed;
odontoid†;
starlike;
stellated†,
stelliform†;
sagittate†,
sagittiform†;
arrowheaded†;
arrowy†,
barbed,
spurred.
acinaciform;
apiculate†,
apiculated†;
aristate†,
awned,
awny†,
bearded,
calamiform†,
cone-shaped,
coniform†,
crestate†,
echinate†,
gladiate†;
lanceolate†,
lanciform;
awl,
awl-shaped,
lance-shaped,
awl-shaped,
scimitar-shaped,
sword-shaped;
setarious†,
spinuliferous†,
subulate†,
tetrahedral,
xiphoid†.
cutting;
sharp edged,
knife edged;
sharp as a razor,
keen as a razor;
sharp as a needle,
sharp as a tack;
sharpened
etc.
v.;
set
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