Definitions for discerning
Overview of verb discern
The verb discern has 1 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (7) spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart
(detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph")
Overview of adj discerning
The adj discerning has 4 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) discerning
(having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; "a discerning critic"; "a discerning reader")
2. discerning, discreet
(unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; "a discerning editor"; "a discreet silence")
3. apprehensive, discerning
(quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne)
4. discerning
(able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive; "discerning taste"; "a discerning eye for color")
