perceptive
Americanadjective
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having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition.
a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
- Synonyms:
- astute, keen, sensitive, discerning
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having the power or faculty of perceiving.
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of, relating to, or showing perception.
adjective
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quick at perceiving; observant
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perceptual
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able to perceive
Other Word Forms
- nonperceptive adjective
- nonperceptively adverb
- nonperceptiveness noun
- nonperceptivity noun
- perceptively adverb
- perceptiveness noun
- perceptivity noun
- self-perceptive adjective
- semiperceptive adjective
- unperceptive adjective
- unperceptively adverb
Etymology
Origin of perceptive
Example Sentences
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But while Amanda's game plan slipped under the radar, the traitors have shared their suspicions that Fiona may be the secret traitor and "pretending to be a bit less perceptive than she actually is".
From BBC
“The Bloody Crossroads,” published in 1987, isn’t the kind of book you expect a journalist to write: a collection of perceptive, thoroughgoing literary essays on important writers from Henry Adams to Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Her essential judgments on persons and events, as quoted, make her look wise and perceptive, which is her general reputation, but she was also indiscreet.
We put store in knowing what people look like: hence the value of perceptive portraits.
Taylor is one of the most emotionally perceptive fiction writers working today, and his third novel, set in the New York art world, is his best.
From Los Angeles Times
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