: having or showing an ability to notice and understand things clearly : mentally sharp or clever. 1  He is an astute observer of the current political scene. 2  Astute readers will notice the error. 3  She made some astute [=insightful] observations about the movie industry. 4  His analysis of the battle was very astute.
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[mez-muh-rahyz, mes-] An eponym is a word derived from a person's name, but you have to do something pretty special for your name to become a verb. To mesmerize is to hypnotize, named for Franz Anton Mesmer, a German physician of the late 1700s.