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Adjective discerning has 4 senses
- discerning - having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; "a discerning critic"; "a discerning reader"
Antonyms: undiscerning, obtuse, purblind, uncomprehending
- discerning, discreet - unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; "a discerning editor"; "a discreet silence"
Antonyms: tactless, untactful (indirect, via tactful)
- apprehensive, discerning - quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Antonyms: unperceptive, unperceiving (indirect, via perceptive)
- discerning - able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive; "discerning taste"; "a discerning eye for color"
Antonyms: undiscriminating, indiscriminating (indirect, via discriminating)
Verb discern has 1 sense
- recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart - detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
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