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discerningadjective having or showing deep understanding and intelligent application of knowledgea discerning critic of modern art insightful, perceptive, prudent, sagacious, sage, sapient, wise acute, penetrating, percipient, perspicaciousexperienceddiscriminating, discriminativebrainy, bright, brilliant, clever, intelligent, keen, nimble, quick, quick-witted, smartcerebral, erudite, knowledgeable, learned, literate, scholarlyastute, clearheaded, piercing, sharp, shrewdcontemplative, reflective, thoughtful unperceptive, unwise dense, dull, obtuse, purblind, woodenheadedbrainless, dumb, feebleminded, foolish, idiotic(also idiotical), imbecile(or imbecilic), knuckleheaded, moronic, silly, simple, slow, slow-witted, stupid, thoughtless, unintelligent, witlessundiscriminating discerningverbpresent participle of discernto make note of (something) through the use of one's eyesbarely able to discern the garden gate through the mist beholding, catching, descrying, distinguishing, espying, eyeing(or eying), looking (at), noticing, noting, observing, perceiving, regarding, remarking, seeing, sighting, spotting, spying, viewing, witnessing identifying, making out, picking out, picking upattending (to), considering, heeding, marking, mindingstudying, watchingexamining, inspecting, scanning, scrutinizing, surveyingglancing (at), glimpsing, peering (at) getting a load of(slang), laying eyes on, setting eyes on disregarding, ignoring, neglecting, overpassing, passing overmissing, overlooking to understand or point out the difference intoo young to discern between right and wrong differencing, differentiating, discriminating, distinguishing, secerning, separating contradistinguishingcomprehending, grasping, knowing, understandingdividing, parting, severingdemarcating, marking (off), setting off confusing, mistaking, mixing (up) confounding, lumping (together), mingling to have a clear idea ofwe're still trying to discern the meaning of that cryptic remark appreciating, apprehending, assimilating, beholding, catching, catching on (to), cognizing, compassing, comprehending, conceiving, cottoning (to or on to), deciphering, decoding, digging, getting, grasping, grokking, intuiting, knowing, making, making out, perceiving, recognizing, registering, savvying, seeing, seizing, sensing, tumbling (to), twigging, understanding absorbing, digesting, taking inrealizingfathoming, penetrating, piercing picking up on missing misapprehending, misconceiving, misconstruing, misinterpreting, misperceiving, misreading, mistaking, misunderstanding in 1589 |