What is "discerning" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does discerning mean in English? Meaning of discerning definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "discerning" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "discerning": having or revealing keen insight and good judgment

Adjective

  • Meaning: having or revealing keen insight and good judgment
  • Example: a discerning critic a discerning reader
  • Synonyms: discerning
  • Antonyms: undiscerning
  • Similar: clear clear-eyed clear-sighted percipient perspicacious prescient
  • Also see: critical discriminating
  • Meaning of "discerning": unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic

    Adjective

  • Meaning: unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic
  • Example: a discerning editor a discreet silence
  • Synonyms: discerning discreet
  • Similar: tactful
  • Meaning of "discerning": quick to understand

    Adjective

  • Meaning: quick to understand
  • Example: a kind and apprehensive friend
  • Synonyms: apprehensive discerning
  • Similar: perceptive
  • Meaning of "discerning": able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive

    Adjective

  • Meaning: able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive
  • Example: discerning taste a discerning eye for color
  • Synonyms: discerning
  • Similar: discriminating
  • Adjective: Present participle of discern.
  • Synonyms:

    penetrating, knowledgeable, piercing, perceptive, astute, insightful, knowing, acute, bright, brilliant, clever, critical, ingenious, intelligent, judicious, perspicacious, sagacious, sage, sensitive, sharp, shrewd, subtle, wise, clear-sighted, gnostic, insighted, percipient,

    Antonyms:

    idiotic, stupid, unintelligent, ignorant, unaware, disregardful, neglectful, negligent, overlooking, undiscerning, undiscriminating,

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    discerning in English: discerning
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