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adj. Exhibiting keen insight and good judgment; perceptive.

v. Present participle of discern.

adj. Of keen insight or good judgement; perceptive.

adj. Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted.

Having power to discern; discriminating; penetrating; acute: as, a discerning man; a discerning mind.

adj. quick to understand

adj. having or revealing keen insight and good judgment

adj. unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic

adj. able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive

"Sometimes prisoners lie and sometimes their jailers do, but Dr. Brooks and his fellow warriors for the Lord haven't had much success in discerning which is which."

perceptive    clear    percipient    perspicacious    prescient    clear-eyed    clear-sighted    tactful    discriminating   

blind   

discern   

acute    shrewd    sagacious    sharp-sighted    bright    discriminating    discriminative    nice    discriminant    clear-headed   

discern   

adjourning    burning    churning    concerning    earning    learning    returning    spurning    turning    yearning