WISE meaning: Possessing knowledge and good judgment

We found 41 dictionaries that define the word wise:

General (29 matching dictionaries)

Wise, -wise, wise: Merriam-Webster.com
-wise, wise, wise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
wise, wise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
-wise, wise: Collins English Dictionary
Wise, wise: Vocabulary.com
Wise, wise: Wordnik
-wise, wise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
WISE, Wise, -wise, wise: Wiktionary
-wise, wise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
-wise, wise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
wise: Infoplease Dictionary
-wise, wise, the wise: Dictionary.com
wise (adj.), wise (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
-wise, wise: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
WISE (AM), WISE, Wise (Stetsasonic), Wise (composer), Wise (rapper), Wise (software), Wise (surname), Wise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Wise: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
wise: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
wise: Rhymezone
wise: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
wise: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
-wise, wise: MyWord.info
WISE, wise: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
wise: Free Dictionary
wise: Mnemonic Dictionary
Wise, wise: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
Wise: Dictionary/thesaurus
wise: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)

wise: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
wise: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)
WISE: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)

baby names list (No longer online)
WISE: Acronym Finder
AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
wise: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

wise, wise, wise: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
wise: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

WISE: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience.
▸ adjective:  (colloquial, ironic, sarcastic) Disrespectful.
▸ adjective:  (colloquial) Aware, informed (to something).
▸ verb:  To become wise.
▸ verb:  (ergative, slang) Usually with "up", to inform or learn.
▸ noun:  (archaic) Way, manner, or method.
▸ verb:  (dialectal) To instruct.
▸ verb:  (dialectal) To advise; induce.
▸ verb:  (dialectal) To show the way, guide.
▸ verb:  (dialectal) To direct the course of, pilot.
▸ verb:  (dialectal) To cause to turn.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  A township in Isabella County, Michigan, United States.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Warren County, North Carolina, United States.
▸ noun:  A town, the county seat of Wise County, Virginia, United States.
▸ noun:  (aviation, nautical) Acronym of wing-in-surface effect.
▸ noun:  (space science, US) Acronym of Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. (a NASA infrared-wavelength astronomical space telescope that performed an all-sky astronomical survey with images in 3-22 μm wavelength bands)

Opposite:

foolish, unwise, imprudent, naive, ignorant

Types:

sage, sapient, prudent, prudential, more...

Phrases:

the wise, wise to, wise man, wise men, wise woman, more...

Adjectives:

late, step, old, young, all, state, street, yoder, former, pair, very

Colors:

sage, emerald, indigo, charcoal, silver, gold, plum, maroon, teal, olive

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