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discerning 音標拼音: [dɪs'ɚnɪŋ] a. 有識別力的;敏銳的 有識別力的;敏銳的 discerning adj 1: having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; " a discerning critic"; " a discerning reader" [ ant: { undiscerning}] 2: unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; " a discerning editor"; " a discreet silence" [ synonym: { discerning}, { discreet}] 3: quick to understand; " a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [ synonym: { apprehensive}, { discerning}] 4: able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive; " discerning taste"; " a discerning eye for color" Discern \ Dis* cern"\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Discerned}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Discerning}.] [ F. discerner, L. discernere, discretum; dis- cernere to separate, distinguish. See { Certain}, and cf. { Discreet}.] 1. To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish. [ 1913 Webster] To discern such buds as are fit to produce blossoms. -- Boyle. [ 1913 Webster] A counterfeit stone which thine eye can not discern from a right stone. -- Robynson ( More' s Utopia). [ 1913 Webster] 2. To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize; as, to discern a difference. [ 1913 Webster] And [ I] beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding. -- Prov. vii. 7. [ 1913 Webster] Our unassisted sight . . . is not acute enough to discern the minute texture of visible objects. -- Beattie. [ 1913 Webster] I wake, and I discern the truth. -- Tennyson. Syn: To perceive; distinguish; discover; penetrate; discriminate; espy; descry; detect. See { Perceive}. [ 1913 Webster]
Discerning \ Dis* cern" ing\, a. Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp- sighted. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 31 Moby Thesaurus words for " discerning": 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
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