Meaning of DISCERNING

Pronunciation:			di'surning
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[adj]  having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; "a discerning critic"; "a discerning reader" [adj]  able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive; "discerning taste"; "a discerning eye for color" [adj]  quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [adj]  unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; "a discerning editor"; "a discreet silence"
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	Synonyms:		apprehensive, clear, clear-eyed, clear-sighted, discreet, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, prescient, tactful
	Antonyms:		undiscerning
	See Also:		critical, discriminating
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
	Definition:		\Dis*cern"ing\, a. Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted. --Macaulay.
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		acute, apperceptive, appercipient, argute, astute, cogent, farseeing, farsighted, foreseeing, foresighted, forethoughted, forethoughtful, gnostic, incisive, insightful, judicious, knowing, knowledgeable, longheaded, longsighted, penetrating, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, perspicuous, piercing, provident, sagacious, sage, trenchant, understanding