Main entry: discerning
Definition: having or revealing keen insight and good judgment
Usage: a discerning critic; a discerning reader
Main entry: discerning
Definition: able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive
Usage: discerning taste; a discerning eye for color
Main entry: apprehensive, discerning
Definition: quick to understand
Usage: a kind and apprehensive friend- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Main entry: discerning, discreet
Definition: unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic
Usage: a discerning editor; a discreet silence