1. Having or prompted by wisdom or discernment
   "a wise leader"; "a wise and perceptive comment"
    
2. Marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters
   "a wise decision";
   - judicious, heady
    
3. Aware of or alert to someone's tricks, schemes, secrets or true intentions
   "She was wise to their scheme and avoided falling for it";
   - knowing, wise to
    
4. Improperly forward or bold
   "Don't get wise with me!";
   - fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, smart, saucy [informal], sassy [N. Amer, informal], lippy [informal]

1. A way of doing or being
   "in no wise"; "in this wise"

1. United States religious leader (born in Bohemia) who united reform Jewish organizations in the United States (1819-1900)
   - Isaac Mayer Wise
    
2. United States Jewish leader (born in Hungary) (1874-1949)
   - Stephen Samuel Wise

Sounds like: wind, whined, wise, why

Derived forms: wisest, wiser, wises

See also: advisable, advised, all-knowing, forward, informed, omniscient, owlish, perspicacious, politic, prudent, sagacious, sage, sapient, sapiential, well-advised

Type of: fashion, manner, mode, religious leader, style, way

Antonym: foolish

Encyclopedia: Wise, Joseph