verb
definition
To become wise.
definition
Usually with "up", to inform or learn.
example
After Mo had a word with him, he wised up.
adjective
definition
Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience.
example
"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish" - Aeschylus
definition
Disrespectful.
example
Don't get wise with me!
definition
Aware, informed.
example
Be careful, the boss is wise.
Examples of wise in a Sentence
I made a wise choice.
Sarah studied the situation with wise eyes.
I don't think it's wise at all.
He was a brave soldier and a wise teacher.
I had taken to heart the words of the wise Roman who said, "To be banished from Rome is but to live outside of Rome."
I missed my calling as a wise and successful detective!
Wise machines are dramatically more valuable than machines that just store and retrieve information.
Maybe it would be wise to separate the two at times.
But this sawhorse can trot as fast as you can, Jim; and he's very wise, too.
But the wolf was too wise to show herself.
In this, as in all other things, Miss Sullivan has been the wise teacher.
Experience has shown how valuable and wise this course was.
They figure if it makes money, it must be a wise business choice.
Sirian edged closer, his wise gaze and silvering hair the only signs of aging on his otherwise lean frame.
He was a very wise and powerful ruler, and he made his country the greatest of any that was then known.
They are fair and wise.
From the first Mr Hart gained the entire confidence of the members of the Chinese government, who were wise enough to recognize his loyal and able assistance.
And the queen said, You are wise, King Solomon.
Lisa glanced at Connie; not at all sure she was making a wise decision.
These rulers were old men, with wise faces and long white beards.
Oh, a very wise man is Prince Kutuzov!
I did not know at first but it was the result of a wise policy.
There one does not meet the great and the wise face to face; one does not even feel their living touch.
Her arguments seemed so wise and practical, that I could not but yield.
It will make us all profoundly wise, wiser than the wisest person who has ever lived.
Their annals are filled with records of dynastic changes and redistributions of territory, consequent upon treaties signed by foreign powers, in the settlement of quarrels which no wise concerned the people.
Yet I have no doubt that that people's rulers are as wise as the average of civilized rulers.
When they make us an offer, is it wise to say, We will think of it?
Even the Chinese philosopher was wise enough to regard the individual as the basis of the empire.
In the old statehouse, the wise men of Connecticut were sitting.
My friends have told me about your great and magnificent city, and I have read a great deal that wise Englishmen have written.
He is a wise and clever fellow.
So he employed a wise man whose name was Al Farra to be their teacher.
New England can hire all the wise men in the world to come and teach her, and board them round the while, and not be provincial at all.
The army had appeared a hard master when it ent its strength to a wise and sagacious rule.
William was indeed wise in keeping his feelings under control.
The famous men of whom I have told you in this story are commonly called the Seven Wise Men of Greece.
The police are getting wise and keeping their mouths shut.
I have to admit he built on what Dad left with wise investments.
In any case he was wise to make peace.
Even so, the issue of the struggle was for long doubtful, and there were moments when it might have ended by a policy of wise concession; but the Americans, though reduced at times to desperate straits, had the advantage of fighting in their own country, and above all they found in George Washington a leader after the model of the English country gentleman who had upheld the standard of liberty against the Stuarts, and worthy of the great cause for which they fought.
Having made these remarks, however, he judged it wise to refrain from giving any formal reply to Count Walewskis despatch, and contented himself with privately communicating to the British ambassador in Paris the difficulties of the British government.
It was no doubt open to her to contend, as perhaps most wise people consider, that the cause of Denmark was not of sufficient importance to justify her in going to, war.
He recognized that the system under which Ireland had been governed in the past had failed to win the allegiance of her people; and he decided that it was wise and safe to entrust her with a large measure of self-government.
Always wise, always holy, always unsearchable, the Christian's God is that heavenly Father who has His full image and revelation in Jesus Christ.
Nature, indeed, cannot relieve men of their duty to be wise and brave, but, in the marvellous configuration of land and sea about Constantinople, nature has done her utmost to enable human skill and courage to establish there the splendid and stable throne of a great empire.
The wise business will use these good times to invest in measures to improve resilience.
His father hoped that Daniel would grow up to be a wise and famous man.
Tell the wise man why you bring it, and repeat to him the words of the oracle.
The oracle at Delphi has ordered that it shall be given to the wisest of wise men, and for that reason we have brought it to you.