| 单词 | perceptive |
| 释义 | perceptive (once / 5943 pages) adj If someone calls you perceptive, they mean you are good at understanding things or figuring things out. Perceptive people are insightful, intelligent, and able to see what others cannot. Perceive means "to see"; so, perceptive is a word to describe someone who is good at seeing. Perceptive is derived from the Latin word percipere which means "to obtain or gather." A perceptive person is good at gathering information and using her senses to take in the world. If you are upset but trying to hide it, a perceptive person is the one who will notice. WORD FAMILYperceptive: perceptively, perceptiveness, perceptivity, unperceptive+/imperceptible: imperceptibility, imperceptibly/misperceive: misperceived, misperceives/perceivable: perceivably, unperceivable/perceive: misperceive, perceivable, perceived, perceiveed, perceiver, perceives, perceiving, perceptible, perception, perceptive, percipient/perceived: unperceived/perceiver: perceivers/perceiving: unperceiving/perceptibility: perceptibilities/perceptible: imperceptible, perceptibility, perceptibly/perception: perceptions/percipient: percipients/unperceivable: unperceivably/unperceiving: unperceivingly/unperceptive: unperceptively, unperceptiveness USAGE EXAMPLESSensitive and perceptive as he is, he becomes, in his new moneyed condition, a snob, amused by the new deference which greets him everywhere. The New Yorker(Dec 28, 2016) One of comedian Nish Kumar’s most perceptive jokes at a recent show was about gentrification involving white people moving into areas where minorities previously lived. The Guardian(Dec 26, 2016) As a foreign correspondent, Pomfret spent many of the years following rapprochement in China, and his first-hand observations are perceptive. Washington Post(Dec 16, 2016) 1adj of or relating to perception perceptive faculties 2adj having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment a perceptive eye a perceptive observation Syn|Ant acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions apprehensive, discerningquick to understand apperceptiveable to relate new percepts to past experience insightfulexhibiting insight or clear and deep perception observant, observingquick to notice; showing quick and keen perception quick-sighted, sharp-eyed, sharp-sightedkeenly perceptive or alert subtleable to make fine distinctions understandingcharacterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy unperceiving, unperceptive lacking perception blindunable or unwilling to perceive or understand unobservant, unseeingnot consciously observing |
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