About The Word Discerning
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Discerning
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What's The Definition Of Discerning?
[adj] having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; "a discerning critic"; "a discerning reader"
[adj] able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive; "discerning taste"; "a discerning eye for color" [adj] quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [adj] unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; "a discerning editor"; "a discreet silence" Synonyms | Synonyms for Discerning: apprehensive | clear | clear-eyed | clear-sighted | discreet | perceptive | percipient | perspicacious | prescient | tactful Related Terms | Find terms related to Discerning: acute | apperceptive | appercipient | argute | astute | cogent | farseeing | farsighted | foreseeing | foresighted | forethoughted | forethoughtful | gnostic | incisive | insightful | judicious | knowing | knowledgeable | longheaded | longsighted | penetrating | perceptive | percipient | perspicacious | perspicuous | piercing | provident | sagacious | sage | trenchant | understanding See Also | critical | discriminating Discerning In Webster's Dictionary \Dis*cern"ing\, a.
Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted. --Macaulay.
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