Discerning

ahd-5
  • adjective. Exhibiting keen insight and good judgment; perceptive.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having power to discern; discriminating; penetrating; acute: as, a discerning man; a discerning mind.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted.
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  • verb. Present participle of discern.
  • adjective. Of keen insight or good judgement; perceptive.
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  • adjective. quick to understand
  • adjective. having or revealing keen insight and good judgment
  • adjective. unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic
  • adjective. able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive
    • Word Usage
    "Sometimes prisoners lie and sometimes their jailers do, but Dr. Brooks and his fellow warriors for the Lord haven't had much success in discerning which is which."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    blind  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    adjourning  burning  churning  concerning  earning  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Argus-eyed  acute  acute  apperceptive  appercipient  
    verb-stem
    discern  
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