'Discerning' definitions:

Definition of 'discerning'

From: WordNet
adjective
Having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; "a discerning critic"; "a discerning reader" [ant: undiscerning]
adjective
Unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; "a discerning editor"; "a discreet silence" [syn: discerning, discreet]
adjective
Quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn: apprehensive, discerning]
adjective
Able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive; "discerning taste"; "a discerning eye for color"

Definition of 'Discerning'

From: GCIDE
  • Discerning \Dis*cern"ing\, a. Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Discerning'

From: GCIDE
  • Discern \Dis*cern"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discerned; p. pr. & vb. n. Discerning.] [F. discerner, L. discernere, discretum; dis- + cernere to separate, distinguish. See Certain, and cf. Discreet.]
  • 1. To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish. [1913 Webster]
  • To discern such buds as are fit to produce blossoms. --Boyle. [1913 Webster]
  • A counterfeit stone which thine eye can not discern from a right stone. --Robynson (More's Utopia). [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize; as, to discern a difference. [1913 Webster]
  • And [I] beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding. --Prov. vii. 7. [1913 Webster]
  • Our unassisted sight . . . is not acute enough to discern the minute texture of visible objects. --Beattie. [1913 Webster]
  • I wake, and I discern the truth. --Tennyson.
  • Syn: To perceive; distinguish; discover; penetrate; discriminate; espy; descry; detect. See Perceive. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'discerning'

From: Moby Thesaurus

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