sapient

The word “sapient” has 3 syllables: sa-pi-ent

It's pronounced as /ˈseɪ.pi.ənt/


What is synonym and antonym for sapient?

In the thesaurus, “sapient” has 50 synonyms and 26 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for sapient along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for sapient

  • acute
  • astucious
  • astute
  • brainy
  • bright
  • brilliant
  • cagey
  • canny
  • cerebral
  • clear-sighted
  • clearheaded
  • clever
  • contemplative
  • discerning
  • discriminating
  • discriminative
  • educated
  • enlightened
  • erudite
  • experienced
  • farsighted
  • foxy
  • informed
  • insightful
  • intelligent
  • judicious
  • keen
  • knowing
  • knowledgeable
  • learned
  • literate
  • nimble
  • penetrating
  • perceptive
  • percipient
  • perspicacious
  • piercing
  • prudent
  • quick
  • quick-witted
  • reflective
  • sagacious
  • sage
  • scholarly
  • sensible
  • sharp
  • shrewd
  • smart
  • thoughtful
  • wise

Antonyms for sapient

  • brainless
  • dense
  • dull
  • dumb
  • feebleminded
  • foolish
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • imbecile
  • imbecilic
  • knuckleheaded
  • moronic
  • obtuse
  • purblind
  • silly
  • simple
  • slow
  • slow-witted
  • stupid
  • thoughtless
  • undiscriminating
  • unintelligent
  • unperceptive
  • unwise
  • witless
  • woodenheaded

Meanings of sapient

  • noun
    1. An intelligent, self-aware being.
  • adjective
    1. Attempting to appear wise or discerning.
    2. Possessing wisdom and discernment; wise, learned.
    3. Of a species or life-form, possessing intelligence or self-awareness.

Example Sentences

  • The sapient professor was known for her profound insights into human behavior.
  • Ancient myths often depict gods as sapient beings who guide and watch over humanity.
  • Her sapient advice helped him navigate the complex decisions of his career.
  • Scientists debate whether any other animals on Earth are truly sapient like humans.
  • The book explores what it means to be a sapient species capable of understanding morality and empathy.

On this page you'll find 76 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to sapient, such as: acute, astucious, astute, brainless, brainy, bright, brilliant.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

farseeing

  • careful
  • cautious
  • clear-sighted
  • discerning
  • extrasensory
  • far-sighted
  • farsighted
  • forehanded
  • foreseeing
  • foresighted
  • forethoughtful
  • forward
  • forward-looking
  • heedful
  • insightful
  • judicious
  • long-sighted
  • new age
  • oracular
  • penetrating
  • perceptive
  • percipient
  • prescient
  • proactive
  • prophetic
  • provident
  • prudent
  • sagacious
  • sage
  • sapient
  • second-sighted
  • sibylline
  • spiritualistic
  • telepathic
  • vatic
  • visionary
  • wise

farsighted

  • acute
  • canny
  • careful
  • cautious
  • clairvoyant
  • commonsensical
  • cool-headed
  • discerning
  • far-seeing
  • farseeing
  • forehanded
  • foreseeing
  • foresighted
  • forethoughtful
  • forward
  • forward-looking
  • heedful
  • insightful
  • judicious
  • levelheaded
  • perceptive
  • percipient
  • politic
  • prescient
  • proactive
  • provident
  • prudent
  • sagacious
  • sage
  • sapient
  • shrewd
  • visionary
  • well-balanced
  • wise

fast

  • PDQ
  • a mile a minute
  • abbreviated
  • abridged
  • abrupt
  • abruptly
  • absolutely
  • abstain
  • abstinence
  • abundantly
  • accelerated
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  • acute
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  • agile
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  • all
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  • astute
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  • at length
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  • basically
  • bawdy
  • beefy
  • beguiling
  • belly
  • bent
  • blistering
  • blue streak
  • bombproof
  • bonded
  • bound
  • brainy
  • breakneck
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  • bright
  • brilliant
  • brisk
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  • by and large
  • by leaps and bounds
  • cagey
  • cagy
  • careless
  • categorically
  • cemented
  • cerebral
  • chiefly
  • chop-chop
  • clamped
  • clean
  • clever
  • close
  • cohesive
  • cold
  • compact
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  • condensed
  • confirmed
  • constant
  • constrained
  • copiously
  • crafty
  • craving
  • creative
  • crisp
  • crooked
  • cunning
  • curtailed
  • cut-back
  • dashing
  • dead
  • debauched
  • deceitful
  • deceiving
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  • dedicated
  • deeply
  • defrauding
  • deluding
  • delusive
  • delusory
  • deny oneself
  • dependable
  • depraved
  • determined
  • devil-may-care
  • devious
  • devoted
  • devout
  • diet
  • discerning
  • dishonest
  • dissipated
  • dissolute
  • dizzy
  • double-dealing
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  • double-time
  • down the line
  • down to the ground
  • down-the-line
  • downright
  • duplicitous
  • durable
  • dutiful
  • dyed-in-the-wool
  • easy
  • educated
  • electric
  • embedded
  • emptiness
  • energetic
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  • enough
  • enthusiastic
  • entire
  • entirely
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  • ephemeral
  • epigrammatic
  • erudite
  • even
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  • exceptional
  • expeditious
  • expeditiously
  • expeditive
  • extravagant
  • faithful
  • false
  • famine
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  • fastened
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  • firm
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  • flashing
  • flat
  • flat-out
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  • fleet-footed
  • fleeting
  • fleetly
  • flirtatious
  • flying
  • for fair
  • forbear
  • fortified
  • foxy
  • fraudulent
  • frivolous
  • frozen
  • full
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  • furtive
  • gadabout
  • galloping
  • generally
  • generously
  • genial
  • giddy
  • glued
  • gluttony
  • go hungry
  • good
  • gourmandism
  • greatly
  • greed
  • guileful
  • gung ho
  • hairtrigger
  • hands down
  • hard
  • hastened
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  • heady
  • heartily
  • held
  • hell-for-leather
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  • highbrow
  • hoggishness
  • hot
  • hunger
  • hunger strike
  • hurried
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  • hyperintelligent
  • hypersonic
  • imbedded
  • immediately
  • immovable
  • impacted
  • impassioned
  • impermanent
  • impetuously
  • implanted
  • impregnable
  • impulsively
  • in a flash
  • in a hurry
  • in a jiffy
  • in haste
  • in nothing flat
  • in short order
  • in whole
  • incontinent
  • indecent
  • indelible
  • inextricable
  • informed
  • infrangible
  • ingenious
  • insidious
  • insightful
  • intelligent
  • intemperate
  • intent
  • intrenched
  • inventive
  • inveterate
  • irrefragable
  • jammed
  • judicious
  • keen
  • knowing
  • knowledgeable
  • laconic
  • largely
  • lascivious
  • lasting
  • learned
  • lecherous
  • lewd
  • libertine
  • libidinous
  • licentious
  • lickety split
  • lickety-split
  • light
  • lightning
  • like a bat out of hell
  • like a flash
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  • like all get out
  • like crazy
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  • like greased lightning
  • like mad
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  • literate
  • little
  • lodged
  • logical
  • loose
  • loyal
  • lustful
  • mainly
  • malnutrition
  • momentary
  • more or less
  • mostly
  • munchies
  • nimble
  • nippy
  • not eat
  • on the double
  • out
  • overall
  • passionate
  • perceptive
  • percipient
  • perfectly
  • perfidious
  • permanent
  • perspicacious
  • pious
  • pithy
  • plain
  • plumb
  • posthaste
  • predominantly
  • predominately
  • presto
  • primarily
  • principally
  • profligate
  • prompt
  • promptly
  • pronto
  • prudent
  • quick
  • quick-witted
  • quickened
  • quickly
  • quite
  • racing
  • rakish
  • rapaciousness
  • rapacity
  • rapid
  • rapid-fire
  • rapidly
  • rashly
  • rational
  • rattling
  • ravenousness
  • readily
  • ready
  • reasonable
  • reckless
  • recklessly
  • refrain
  • reliable
  • resistant
  • resolute
  • resourceful
  • responsible
  • rogue
  • rush
  • rushed
  • sagacious
  • sage
  • salacious
  • sane
  • sapient
  • savvy
  • scholarly
  • schooled
  • secure
  • secured
  • securely
  • self-gratifying
  • self-indulgent
  • sensible
  • serious
  • set
  • shady
  • sharp
  • sharp-witted
  • shifty
  • short
  • short-lived
  • short-range
  • short-term
  • shortened
  • shortish
  • shrewd
  • skilled
  • slick
  • slippery
  • sly
  • smart
  • snap
  • snappily
  • snappy
  • sneaking
  • sneaky
  • snug
  • solid
  • solidly
  • soon
  • sound
  • soundly
  • speedball
  • speedily
  • speedy
  • split-second
  • splitting
  • sportive
  • sporty
  • stable
  • stalwart
  • stanch
  • starvation
  • starve
  • staunch
  • steadfast
  • steadfastly
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  • stomach
  • stone
  • stone-cold
  • strenuous
  • strong
  • stuck
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  • substantially
  • subtle
  • succinct
  • sudden
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  • summary
  • supersmart
  • supersonic
  • sure
  • sweet tooth
  • swift
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  • syncopated
  • tenacious
  • terse
  • thoroughly
  • through and through
  • tight
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  • to bits
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  • to the hilt
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  • tough
  • trained
  • transient
  • transitory
  • treacherous
  • trickish
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  • tried
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  • true
  • true blue
  • true-blue
  • trustworthy
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  • ultrafast
  • ultrarapid
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  • unbreakable
  • unchaste
  • unconscionable
  • underhand
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  • undernourishment
  • unethical
  • unfaltering
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  • unprincipled
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  • unwavering
  • unyielding
  • utterly
  • velocious
  • vigorous
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  • voraciousness
  • voracity
  • wanton
  • wedged
  • well
  • well-read
  • whirlwind
  • wholly
  • wide
  • wild
  • wily
  • winged
  • wise
  • xerophagy
  • zippy

judgmatic

  • advisable
  • astute
  • canny
  • careful
  • cautious
  • chary
  • circumspect
  • cozy
  • discerning
  • discreet
  • discriminating
  • economical
  • far-sighted
  • forehanded
  • foresighted
  • foresightful
  • forethoughtful
  • frugal
  • intelligent
  • judicious
  • leery
  • perspicacious
  • playing safe
  • politic
  • provident
  • prudent
  • reasonable
  • sagacious
  • sage
  • sane
  • sapient
  • senseful
  • sensible
  • shrewd
  • sound
  • sparing
  • tactical
  • thinking twice
  • thrifty
  • vigilant
  • wary
  • wise

judgmatical

  • astute
  • canny
  • cautious
  • chary
  • circumspect
  • cozy
  • discerning
  • discreet
  • discriminating
  • forehanded
  • foresighted
  • foresightful
  • forethoughtful
  • intelligent
  • judicious
  • perspicacious
  • provident
  • prudent
  • sagacious
  • sage
  • sane
  • sapient
  • senseful
  • sensible
  • shrewd
  • wise

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