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discerning

/dɪˈsɝnɪŋ/ · 10 letters · 8 distinct letters

  1. adjective

    having or revealing keen insight and good judgment

    a discerning critic

  2. verb

    detect with the senses

    The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards

  3. adjective

    unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic

    a discerning editor

  4. adjective

    quick to understand;, Nathaniel Hawthorne

    a kind and apprehensive friend

  5. adjective

    able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive

    discerning taste

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