English Explanatory Dictionary

wise

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience.
  2. Disrespectful.
  3. Aware, informed (to something).
verb
  1. To become wise.
  2. Usually with "up", to inform or learn.
noun
  1. Way, manner, or method.
verb
  1. To instruct.
  2. To advise; induce.
  3. To show the way, guide.
  4. To direct the course of, pilot.
  5. To cause to turn.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A township in Isabella County, Michigan, United States.
  3. An unincorporated community in Warren County, North Carolina, United States.
  4. A town, the county seat of Wise County, Virginia, United States.
noun
  1. Acronym of wing-in-surface effect.
name
  1. 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”).

Pronunciation

/waɪz/ en-us-wise.ogg

Word forms

wise wiser more wise wisest most wise wize wises wising wised

Etymology

From Middle English wys, wyse, from Old English wīs (“wise”), from Proto-Germanic *wīsaz (“knowledgeable, wise”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéydos (“seeing; knowledge”), from *weyd- (“to see”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian wiis (“wise”), Dutch wijs (“wise”), German weis, weise (“wise”), Low German wies (“wise; clever”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish vis (“wise”), Icelandic vís (“wise; certain”), Gothic *𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍃 (*weis, “wise”); also Irish fios (“knowledge; information”), Manx fys (“knowledge; information”), Scottish Gaelic fhios, fios (“knowledge; information”), Welsh gwys, gwŷs (“citation, summons”), Latin videō (“to look, perceive, see; to note, observe; to comprehend, understand”), Greek είδος (eídos, “form, kind, type”), Albanian vizë (“line, stripe, track; dash”), Latvian veids (“form, kind, mode, type”), Lithuanian veidas (“face; appearance, aspect, look”), Belarusian ве́даць (vjédacʹ, “to know”), Bulgarian вям (vjam, “to know”), Czech vědět (“to know”), Polish wiedzieć (“to know”), Russian ве́дать (védatʹ, “to know”), Serbo-Croatian vedeti, viedieti (“to know”), Slovak vedieť (“to know”), Slovene vedeti (“to know”), Ukrainian ві́дати (vídaty, “to know”), Armenian գիտեմ (gitem, “I know”), գիտենալ (gitenal), գիտնալ (gitnal, “to know”), Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬉𐬛 (vaēd, “find”), 𐬬𐬌𐬛 (vid, “to know”), Persian نوید (navid / nawīd, nuwēd, “invitation; annunciation; good news”), Tocharian A ime (“awareness, consciousness, memory, thought”), Tocharian B īme (“awareness, consciousness, memory, thought”), ūwe (“educated, learned, knowledgeable”), Sanskrit वेदस् (vedas, “knowledge, science; property, wealth”). Compare wit.

Synonyms

astute clairvoyant deep frood grounded judicious oracular perspicacious politic profound prudent quick-witted reasonable sagacious sage sapient sensible wise witful wing-in-surface-effect wing in surface-effect wing-in-surface effect wing in surface effect

Antonyms

unwise foolish improvident

Related words

intelligent learned wily

Derived words

blow wise to crack wise get wise in like wise it is a wise child that knows his own father it is easy to be wise after the event not wise penny wise and pound foolish put someone wise seawise three wise men wisdom wise aleck wise-apple wise apple wise as an owl wise-ass wiseass wise beyond one's years wisecrack wise-cracking wise gal wise-guy wise guy wise head on young shoulders wise-hearted wiselike wise-like wiseling wise man wisen wiseness wise off wise up wise woman wizard word to the wise worldly wise you can't put a wise head on young shoulders -wise alwise nowise Wise County Wise Creek WISE ship WISE plane WISE airplane WISE aeroplane WISE aircraft
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