Acumen – meaning, usage, quotes, and social examples

The word of the day is ‘acumen’.

The word is a noun, i.e., it is the main subject of a sentence.

No, the word is a noun. Therefore, it does not have a past form

It means:
1. Ability to understand and reason
2. Ability to make good judgements and take quick decisions.
3. Cleverness
4. Sharpness

1. Yet the old man’s confidence in the young man’s acumen was invulnerable.
2.She hides a shrewd business acumen.
3. She set a too high value upon her acumen, upon the keenness of her instincts.
4. Warburton meets this objection with his usual fierté and acumen.
5. The Parisian police, so much extolled for acumen, are cunning, but no more.

Some synonyms of today’s word are:
acuity, awareness, brilliance, guile, ingenuity, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, sensitivity, shrewdness, vision, wisdom, wit, astuteness, brains, cleverness, comprehension, cunning, discernment, discrimination, farsightedness, keenness, perception, perspicacity, perspicuity, refinement, sagacity, sharpness, smartness, understanding, percipience astuteness, sharp-wittedness, brightness, common sense, canniness, intuitiveness, vision, powers of reasoning, savvy, know-how, horse sense, grey matter, sapience etc.

witlessness, ignorance, insensitivity, stupidity, misinterpretation, mistake, misunderstanding, denseness, inability, ineptness, obtuseness