different between savvy vs insightful

English

Etymology

Alteration of save, sabi (“know”) (in English-based creoles and pidgins), from Portuguese or Spanish sabe (“[she/he] knows”), from saber (“to know”), from Latin sapi? (“to be wise”).

1785, as a noun, “practical sense, intelligence”; also a verb, “to know, to understand”; West Indies pidgin borrowing of French savez(-vous) (“do you know”), Portuguese (você) sabe (“you know”) or Spanish (usted) sabe (“you know”), all from Vulgar Latin *sapere, from Latin sapere (“be wise, be knowing”) (see sapient). The adjective is first recorded 1905, from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sæ.vi/
• Rhymes: -ævi

Adjective

savvy (comparative savvier, superlative savviest)

1. (informal) Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
   • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]

     That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.

Synonyms

• canny

Derived terms

• tech-savvy

Related terms

Translations

Verb

savvy (third-person singular simple present savvies, present participle savvying, simple past and past participle savvied)

1. (informal) To understand.

Translations

Noun

savvy (uncountable)

1. (informal) Shrewdness.

References

• “savvy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Chinese Pidgin English

Alternative forms

• sarby

Etymology

From Macau Pidgin Portuguese ?? (saat3 baai3), ?? (saat3 bi6), ?? (saan2 baai3), from Portuguese sabe.

Verb

savvy

1. know
2. understand

References

• Gow, W. S. P. (1924) Gow’s Guide to Shanghai, 1924: A Complete, Concise and Accurate Handbook of the City and District, Especially Compiled for the Use of Tourists and Commercial Visitors to the Far East, Shanghai, page 108: “Savvy: (Portuguese) know; understand; No savvy ? Do you not understand ?”

English

Etymology

insight +? -ful

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?sa?t.f(?)l/, /??n.sa?t.f(?)l/
• Homophone: inciteful

Adjective

insightful (comparative more insightful, superlative most insightful)

1. Possessing insight.

Derived terms

• insightfully
• insightfulness

Translations