Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Exhibiting keen insight and good judgment; perceptive.
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- v. Present participle of discern.
- adj. Of keen insight or good judgement; perceptive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having power to discern; discriminating; penetrating; acute: as, a discerning man; a discerning mind.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. quick to understand
- adj. having or revealing keen insight and good judgment
- adj. unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic
- adj. able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive
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Examples
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Sometimes prisoners lie and sometimes their jailers do, but Dr. Brooks and his fellow warriors for the Lord haven't had much success in discerning which is which.
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Clerval, whose eyes and feelings were always quick in discerning the sensations of others, declined the subject, alleging, in excuse, his total ignorance; and the conversation took a more general turn.
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Williams honestly believes that as cantuar, and as a member of the Church Catholic, he is called to participate with others in discerning the mind of the Church, responsive to the will of God.
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Did you know that a shot of espresso is so volatile that after seven seconds standing, it will taste significantly less good to certain discerning consumers?
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Which is why hypotheticals have limited utility in discerning anything.
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Pinker suggests that fMRI studies can show how women's "neural hardware" gives them an edge in discerning emotion.
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The one problem I always seem to have is in discerning between sarcasm and bitterness, the two tones often coming neck-to-neck with one another.
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Precisely because of their different perspectives and methodologies, reading the two accounts together aids in discerning the place of literature in psychical reality.
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On the one hand, it is interesting that the eye works logarithmically in discerning brightness, and this has historical significance in astronomy.
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