Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition

canny adj (CLEVER)

discerning adj
discriminating adj
discrimination n (SEEING A DIFFERENCE)
down-to-earth adj
far-sighted adj (WISE)
forward-looking adj
gnomic adj
grounded adj (SENSIBLE)
hard-headed adj
hard-nosed adj
healthy adj (NORMAL)
hindsight n
judicious adj
level-headed adj
mature adj (LIKE AN ADULT)
neat adj (CLEVER)
neatly adv (CLEVER)
no-nonsense adj
perspicacious adj
perspicacity n
politic adj
practical adj (EFFECTIVE)
practicality n (EFFECTIVE)
pragmatic adj
pragmatically adv
pragmatism n
prescience n, at prescient adj
rationally adv
realism n (THOUGHT)
realist n (THOUGHT)
realistic adj
realistically adv
reasonable adj
reasonably adv
reasoned adj
responsibility n (GOOD JUDGMENT)
responsible adj (GOOD JUDGMENT)
right-minded adj
sagacious adj
sage adj
savoir-faire n
sense n (GOOD JUDGMENT)
sensible adj (GOOD JUDGMENT)
sensibly adv
shrewd adj
sound adj (GOOD JUDGMENT)
soundness n (GOOD JUDGMENT)
steady adj (CONTROLLED)
street-smart adj
street smarts n
streetwise adj
thinking adj
well advised adj
wily adj
wisdom n
wise adj
wisely adv
street-smart, at streetwise adj
sb would do better
get/keep sth in perspective
softly-softly approach
do as you think best idiom
had best/better idiom
no flies on sb idiom
have/keep your feet on the ground idiom

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 Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition

an old/a wise head on young shoulders idiom

have your head screwed on (the right way) idiom
it never hurts to do sth idiom
have method in your madness idiom
out of the mouths of babes and sucklings idiom
think on your feet idiom
be a victory for common sense idiom
to be wise after the event idiom
have both feet on the ground, at have/keep your feet on the ground idiom
have a method to your madness, at have method in your madness idiom

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