Definitions for: 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"



Webster (1913) Definition: Dis*cern"ing, a.
Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted. --Macaulay.

Synonyms: apprehensive, clear, clear-eyed, clear-sighted, discreet, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, prescient, tactful

Antonyms: undiscerning

See Also: critical, discriminating

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