JUDICIOUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does judicious mean? 

• JUDICIOUS (adjective)
  The adjective JUDICIOUS has 1 sense:

1. marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters

  Familiarity information: JUDICIOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUDICIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters

Synonyms:

heady; judicious; wise

Context example:

a wise decision

Similar:

prudent (careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment)

Derivation:

judiciousness (the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating)

judiciousness (good judgment)

 Context examples 

With this persuasion I now answered—As far as I can see, it would be wiser and more judicious if you were to take to yourself the original at once.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Their manners were particularly civil, and Elinor soon allowed them credit for some kind of sense, when she saw with what constant and judicious attention they were making themselves agreeable to Lady Middleton.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

"It is very hard," said I. "Surely a judicious account—"

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It was not judicious, sir, I am willing to admit,” said Mr. Mell.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But I forbear descanting further, and rather leave the judicious reader to his own remarks and application.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I want your opinion as a judicious man—as a man of the world.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yes, he certainly read in Miss Morland's eyes a judicious desire of making use of the present smiling weather.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

From being the mere gentleman's residence, it becomes, by judicious improvement, the residence of a man of education, taste, modern manners, good connexions.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She laughed because she was disappointed; and though she liked him for his attentions, and thought them all, whether in friendship, admiration, or playfulness, extremely judicious, they were not winning back her heart.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Cane cultivation faces challenges in addition to the need for judicious use of fertilizers.

(Method that cuts sugarcane emissions gets global prize, SciDev.Net)