sapience, n. wisdom, sageness, sagacity, sense, common sense, reason, soundness, reasonableness; intelligence, knowledge, genius, judgment; judiciousness, discretion, discrimination, circumspection, prudence, providence; perceptiveness, perception, percipience, perspicacity, perspicuity; discernment, penetration, insight, profundity, depth, deepness; astuteness, acuity, acumen; shrewdness, cleverness, sharpness, smartness, keenness; cunning, mother wit, wit, parts, Inf. smarts, Inf. brains. sapient, adj. wise, sage, sagacious, sound; sensible, rational, reasonable, knowing, intelligent; philosophical, oracular, enlightened, deep, profound; judicious, discreet, circumspect, discriminating, prudent, provident; penetrating, discerning, perspicacious, perceptive, percipient; astute, apt, keen, sharp, bright, keen-sighted, clear-sighted, clear-headed; clever, brainy, smart, quick-witted, nimble-witted; shrewd, foxy, calculating, sharp-witted; long-headed, far-sighted, longsighted. sapless, adj. 1. withered, wizened, shriveled, shrunk, shrunken; juiceless, dry; decayed, dead.
2. insipid, flat, uninteresting, unentertaining, inexpressive, unimaginative, colorless, jejune, Sl. blah; unamimated, spiritless, zestless; tame, lifeless, empty, Sl. dead, Sl. nothing; pointless, impotent, weak, feeble, anemic, limp, namby-pamby; dry-as-dust, prosaic, prosy, arid, barren, sterile; dull, boring, monotonous, tedious, tiresome, Sl. a drag; stale, tired, trite, hackneyed, banal, overworked; indistinctive, run-of-the-mill, ordinary, commonplace, average; bland, vapid, thin, watered-down, dilute.
sapling, n. 1. young tree, seedling.
2. young person, youth, youngling, juvenile, girl, boy; sprig, stripling, slip, fledgling; youngster, child, Inf. shaver, Inf. kid, tot, U.S. Inf. tad, urchin. sappy, adj. 1. succulent, juicy, lush, oozy, seepy; moist, watery, hydrous; sticky, tacky, adhesive, viscous, viscid.
2. energetic, energetical, vigorous, dynamic, electric; active, alive, full of energy, Inf. full of pep, Inf. peppy, Inf. snappy, Inf. on one's toes, full of vim and vigor; eager, ready to go, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed; lively, spirited, Sl. go-go, full of life, animated, vibrant, vital, vivacious.
3. Slang, silly, foolish, corny; sentimental, Brit. Sl. soppy, emotional, maudlin, overdone, Inf. tear-jerking, Inf. mushy; mawkish, insipid, vapid. sarcasm, n. 1. derision, ridicule, scorn, mockery, jest; satire, irony, cynicism, lampoon, burlesque; contempt, disparagement, disdain, superciliousness, haughtiness, arrogance; criticism, censure, hit, fling, Inf. flak, rub, dig; taunt, fleer, gibe, jeer, flout, scoff, sneer, wipe, quip, nip; abuse, contumely, barb, slur, vituperation, aspersion.
2. acrimony, acrimoniousness, causticity, aperity, mordancy, acridness, acridity, pungency, venom, venomousness, venomness; trenchancy, keenness, incisiveness; harshness, sharpness, pointedness; virulence, spite, spitefulness, malice, malicousness, viciousness; astringency, severity, sternness, acerbity, austerity, stringency; peevishness, petulance, Rare, petulancy, crabbedness, testiness, touchiness, irascibility, edginess; ill temper, ill-temperedness, short-temperedness, ill humor, ill-humoredness. sarcastic, adj. 1. sardonic, scornful, mocking, ridiculing, derisive, derisory, Rabelaisian; satirical, ironic, ironical, double-edged, edged, cynical; contemptuous, contumelious, disparaging, sneering, disdainful, supercilious, haughty, arrogant; taunting, teasing, chaffing, gibing, jeering, quizzical, scoffing; critical, captious, faultfinding, carping, caviling, cen