Usually means: Possessing wisdom, intelligence, and judgment.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word sapient:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. sapient: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sapient: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sapient: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sapient: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sapient: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sapient, sapient: Wordnik
  7. sapient: Wiktionary
  8. sapient: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. sapient: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sapient: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sapient: Dictionary.com
  12. sapient: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Sapient (company), Sapient: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Sapient: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. sapient: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. sapient: Rhymezone
  17. Sapient: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. sapient: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. sapient: Free Dictionary
  20. sapient: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. sapient: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. sapient: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sapient: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SAPIENT: Acronym Finder
  2. sapient: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sapient: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See sapiently as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Attempting to appear wise or discerning.
adjective:  (dated) Possessing wisdom and discernment; wise, learned.
adjective:  (chiefly science fiction) Of a species or life-form, possessing intelligence or a high degree of self-awareness.
noun:  (chiefly science fiction) An intelligent, self-aware being.

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