What's the difference between inestimable and perspicacious?

Inestimable


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being estimated or computed; especially, too valuable or excellent to be measured or fully appreciated; above all price; as, inestimable rights or privileges.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Like a reforming editor, he needs to convince people that his changes are designed to strengthen, not undermine, the inestimably valuable tradition of which he has the privilege to be the temporary custodian.
  • (2) Helicopters may give inestimable service to carry patients in well equipped center as U.S. trauma centres.
  • (3) An active anthracycline devoid of cardiotoxicity, a bleomycin with no effect on pulmonary tissue, an analogue of streptozoticin devoid of nephrotoxicity -- these would be advances of inestimable benefit to the cancer patient of the future.
  • (4) Other instances are presented of the inestimable value of a population-based registry to cancer epidemiology.
  • (5) His characterization of alpha-MSH and melatonin and his sparking of interest in the further discovery of previously unknown substances have been of inestimable value for the field of neurobiology.
  • (6) Use of the stereomicroscope once again proved to be of inestimable value in routine autopsy service.
  • (7) Computer-assisted medical literature searching is of inestimable value for patient care, research, and teaching.
  • (8) We recommend that through all information sources, the inestimable value of human milk as an ideal nourishment, due to its nutritional, economical, psychological and hygienic properties, should be emphasized.
  • (9) Of seven AR-negative cases, all but one inestimable case had no response to the hormone therapy.
  • (10) There is now a support group that is of inestimable value to the families of those who suffer from immunodeficiency.
  • (11) So far the didactic value of proven homologies is inestimably great.
  • (12) Then there’s an inestimable amount of Discworld spinoffery: chess pieces, wizardly hats, cloaks and T-shirts, leathern bags, pottery figurines, fantastic artwork, magic clobber of every kind including dribbly candles – all made by and sold to fans.
  • (13) According to that inestimable resource, soccerbase.com the match took place on December 22, 1978.
  • (14) The parallel pharmacological assay system has been of inestimable value in the identification and quantification of prostaglandins.
  • (15) The streptococcus, responsible for inestimable morbidity and mortality among parturient women since the 16th century, is no longer a significant cause of puerperal infection.
  • (16) The inestimable cases and those refractory to treatment made up the other 12% and among them are also the 23 colectomized patients.
  • (17) Curators regard the £500,000 purchase as being of inestimable importance.
  • (18) If they are happy, the intangible rewards will be inestimable.
  • (19) Mr Miliband has detractors aplenty, but one inestimable asset.
  • (20) Getting bootilicious with Beyoncé Having conquered the green fields of Avalon , the inestimable Mrs Carter has chosen V for her only European festival appearance this year.

Perspicacious


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp of sight.
  • (a.) Fig.: Of acute discernment; keen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Attention to the details of current investigations, efforts to control the risk factors, and the perspicacious use and suitable monitoring of pharmacological agents can be expected to reduce the risks for both the pregnant patient and her attending physicians.
  • (2) The deep grooves of grief in his brow, his sunken, woeful eyes and dry parched lips a perspicacious sculpture carved in anticipation of this slap of indignity.
  • (3) Only one thing is perspicaciously clear, and that is where the hysterical arguments against change put by, among others, the Church of England will lie once this saga has run its course – namely, on the wrong side of history.
  • (4) But a close second is the more meaningful and perspicacious “Blame straight people – they keep having gay babies ”.
  • (5) As Steve Coll wrote perspicaciously in The New Yorker last week , the question of resuming war in Iraq in 2014 is not whether or not a new conflict can be justified – but where it will lead.
  • (6) Les Bright Exeter, Devon • For her perspicacious and comprehensive analysis of all the difficulties Simon Stevens will face as the chief of NHS England, Polly Toynbee should be raised to the peerage.
  • (7) Drawing from a perspicacious review of the literature, the respective advantages of various biopsy technics and their uses (i.e.