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per·cep·tive
 perceptive
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adjective |
| definition 1: |
having keen perception, insight, or intuitive understanding.
Being highly perceptive, she is well-suited to being a marriage counselor.If he had been more perceptive, he could have seen through her calm façade.- synonyms:
- insightful, intuitive, keen, percipient, perspicacious, sensitive, understanding
- antonyms:
- blind, imperceptive, unperceptive
- similar words:
- alert, aware, clairvoyant, clearheaded, conscious, delicate, discerning, discriminating, mordant, quick, quick-witted, sharp, witty
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| definition 2: |
marked by such insight or understanding.
His perceptive comment favorably impressed his boss.- synonyms:
- acute, clever, incisive, keen, mordant
- antonyms:
- unperceptive
- similar words:
- astute, conscious, delicate, discerning, instinctive, instinctual, intuitive, penetrating, sharp, wise, witty
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| related words: |
acute, calculating, discriminate, exquisite, guarded, intelligent, knowing, observant, ready, sensitive, thoughtful, trenchant, wise |
| derivations: |
perceptively (adv.), perceptiveness (n.) |
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