wise - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com

The adjective wise describes someone who has experience and a deep understanding. Your wise older sister always gives the best advice.

When you make a decision based on careful thought and good judgment, you've made a wise choice. If someone calls you a wise guy, though, it's not a compliment: it's likely to be a criticism of your joke at someone else's expense or your rudeness. To wise off (or sometimes, to be wise), has a similar meaning: to talk back or be disrespectful.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: wise

1	adj	having or prompted by wisdom or discernment
2	n	a way of doing or being

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: wise

1

adj having or prompted by wisdom or discernment

“a wise leader”

“a wise and perceptive comment”

Synonyms: advisable
worthy of being recommended or suggested; prudent or wise; advised, well-advised
having the benefit of careful prior consideration or counsel; politic
marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness; prudent
careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment; all-knowing, omniscient
infinitely wise; perspicacious, sagacious, sapient
acutely insightful and wise; owlish
resembling an owl; solemn and wise in appearance; sapiential
characterized by wisdom, especially the wisdom of God; sage
having wisdom that comes with age and experience

Antonyms:: foolish
devoid of good sense or judgment; inadvisable, unadvisable
not prudent or wise; not recommended; ill-advised, unadvised
without careful prior deliberation or counsel; impolitic
not politic; imprudent
not prudent or wise; absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous
incongruous;inviting ridicule; asinine, fatuous, inane, mindless, vacuous
devoid of intelligence; cockamamie, cockamamy, goofy, sappy, silly, wacky, whacky, zany
ludicrous, foolish; fond
absurd or silly because unlikely; harebrained, insane, mad
very foolish; ill-conceived, misguided
poorly conceived or thought out; rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained, scatty
lacking sense or discretion; unwise
showing or resulting from lack of judgment or wisdom; show more antonyms...

adj marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters

“a wise decision”

Synonyms:: heady, judicious

: prudent
careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment

adj evidencing the possession of inside information

Synonyms:: knowing, wise to

: informed
having much knowledge or education

adj improperly forward or bold

“Don't get wise with me!”

Synonyms:: fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, sassy, saucy, smart

: forward
used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty

2

n a way of doing or being

“in no wise”

“in this wise”

Type of:: fashion, manner, mode, style, way
how something is done or how it happens