Synonyms: discerning
Definition: having or revealing keen insight and good judgment
Usage: a discerning critic; a discerning reader
Similar words: percipient, clear
Definition: characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving
Usage: clear mind; a percipient author
Similar words: clear-eyed, clear-sighted, perspicacious
Definition: mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
Usage: too clear-eyed not to see what problems would follow; chaos could be prevented only by clear-sighted leadership; much too perspicacious to be taken in by so spurious an argument
Similar words: prescient
Definition: perceiving the significance of events before they occur
Usage: extraordinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relations-R.H.Rovere
Synonyms: discerning
Definition: able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive
Usage: discerning taste; a discerning eye for color
Similar words: discriminating
Definition: showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste
Usage: the discriminating eye of the connoisseur
Synonyms: apprehensive, discerning
Definition: quick to understand
Usage: a kind and apprehensive friend- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Similar words: perceptive
Definition: having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment
Usage: a perceptive eye; a perceptive observation
Synonyms: discerning, discreet
Definition: unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic
Usage: a discerning editor; a discreet silence
Similar words: tactful
Definition: having or showing a sense of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others
Usage: she was tactful enough not to shatter his illusion; a tactful remark eased her embarrassment