Adjective discerning has 4 senses
  1. discerning - having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; "a discerning critic"; "a discerning reader"
    Antonyms:
    undiscerning, obtuse, purblind, uncomprehending
  2. discerning, discreet - unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; "a discerning editor"; "a discreet silence"
    Antonyms: tactless, untactful (indirect, via tactful)
  3. apprehensive, discerning - quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
    Antonyms: unperceptive, unperceiving (indirect, via perceptive)
  4. discerning - able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive; "discerning taste"; "a discerning eye for color"
    Antonyms:
    undiscriminating, indiscriminating (indirect, via discriminating)
,Verb discern has 1 sense
  1. 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"
    Derived form: noun discernment3
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
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