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Discerning

Discerning Meaning & Definition
Discerning Definition And Meaning

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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