discerning

[disĀ·cernĀ·ing]

Discerning people pick up on subtle traits and are good judges of quality they're the ones who can tell if your cupcakes are homemade from the finest ingredients or totally from a box mix.

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Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted.

Adjective
having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; "a discerning critic"; "a discerning reader"

Adjective S.
able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive; "discerning taste"; "a discerning eye for color"

Adjective S.
quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Adjective S.
unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; "a discerning editor"; "a discreet silence"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Discern

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


Discerning

Dis*cern"ing, a. Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted. Macaulay.

Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted.

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Usage Examples

I've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you don't cut.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

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