[ US /dɪˈsɝnɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /dɪsˈɜːnɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic
    a discerning editor
    a discreet silence
  2. quick to understand
    a kind and apprehensive friend
  3. able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive
    a discerning eye for color
    discerning taste
  4. having or revealing keen insight and good judgment
    a discerning critic
    a discerning reader
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How To Use discerning In A Sentence

  • This sure seems a bonanza opportunity for both designers and customers with a discerning eye.
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  • If a cook does not get a discerning customer, all his efforts and culinary skills would be wasted.
  • Of course, a student has to be taught from a somewhat early age how to be discerning about the sources of education, but this is true for one who goes to a college as well as for one who is self-educated. When Children Are Grown
  • To the undiscerning eye, this place might seem to have a serenely majestic air, but Harun can feel the underlying tension with every step.
  • The conclusion is a pressing exhortation to Catholics to be discerning, and a pledge to undertake a critical dialogue with those affected by New Age influences.
  • a discerning editor
  • _merit-thermometer_, a sort of _Aeolian-harp-test_; in the flat parts his voice was unimpassioned, but if the gust of genius swept over the wires, his tones rose in intensity, till his own energy of feeling and expression kindled in others a sympathetic impulse, which the dull were forced to feel, whilst his animated recitations threw fresh meaning into the minds of the more discerning. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
  • The revamp might look great to our discerning eyes. Times, Sunday Times
  • She is both the discerning scholar from the West who has managed to keep a sense of perspective and balance in a diffuse narrative and an enchanted participant in the action.
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