0 able to understand a situation quickly and see how to take advantage of it:
1 quick to see how to use a situation to your advantage:
He was politically astute, and was soon appointed to a number of powerful committees in Congress.
Once again, however, respondents were often astute when it came to discussing underlying issues.
She was proud, astute, and worried about her husband's welfare.
Unfortunately, these astute observations on education are inappropriately framed as an internal feminist debate about transnationalism.
To achieve good results, it is necessary to make an astute choice of trial function.
He wages this campaign with clarity, care, and astute insight.
Politically astute individuals have found several uses for absolute borderline cases.
Astute observers looking ahead just a few years see some frightening possibilities.
Many ' rising men ' supplemented a core group of senior churchmen, ensuring that the commission was both intellectually highpowered and politically astute.
