Meaning of DISCRIMINATING
| Pronunciation: | | di'skrimu`neyting
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- [adj] marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions; "discriminate judgments"; "discriminate people"
- [adj] showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste; "the discriminating eye of the connoisseur"
- [adj] having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations"
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| | Synonyms: | | acute, appreciative, diacritic, diacritical, discriminate, discriminative, discriminatory, eclectic, good, incisive, keen, knifelike, nice, penetrating, penetrative, perceptive, piercing, selective, sharp |
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| | Antonyms: | | indiscriminate, indiscriminating, undiscriminating | | |
| | See Also: | | discerning, discriminating | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis*crim"i*na`ting\, a.
Marking a difference; distinguishing. --
{Dis*crim"i*na`ting*ly}, adv.
And finds with keen discriminating sight, Black's not
so black; -- nor white so very white. --Canning.
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| | Related Terms: | | accurate, adoptive, appointive, appreciative, careful, censorious, characteristic, characterizing, choicy, choosing, choosy, circumspect, civilized, conscientious, considerate, constituent, contrastive, critical, cultivated, cultured, dainty, delicate, diacritical, diagnostic, differencing, differential, differentiative, discerning, discreet, discriminate, discriminative, distinctive, distinguishing, eclectic, elective, electoral, elegant, enlightened, exact, exacting, fastidious, fine, fussy, graceful, gracile, gracious, idiosyncratic, individualizing, individuating, judgmatic, judicial, judicious, keen, meticulous, nice, particular, peculiar, perceptive, perfectionistic, personalizing, picky, polished, politic, precise, precisianistic, priggish, provident, prudent, prudential, prudish, punctilious, puristic, puritanic, refined, reflecting, reflective, scrupulous, select, selecting, selective, sensitive, separative, sophisticated, strict, subtle, tactful, thoughtful, well-advised, well-judged, wise |
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