verb : DISCERNING
Source: WordNet 3.1
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1. (
) 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" ;
Adjective : DISCERNING
Source: WordNet 3.1
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1. (
) having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; "a discerning critic"; "a discerning reader" ;
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2. (
) unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; "a discerning editor"; "a discreet silence" ;
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3. (
) quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne ;
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4. (
) able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive; "discerning taste"; "a discerning eye for color" ;
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