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Meanings of perceptive in English
Having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment.
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Usage of perceptive in English
1
It needed to be a good question: something smart, perceptive, and classy.
2
His work is deeply perceptive, often outrageously funny and always compulsively readable.
3
For hours Roy talked while Eve interjected numerous questions and perceptive comments.
4
I think people might need a break from me. Talented and perceptive.
5
It was a perceptive way to treat him, the Ninth's Zelandoni said.
6
Dos Passos's letters and diaries are perceptive in a democratic American vein.
7
She did the impossible; her critique was both acutely perceptive and gentle.
8
Her state of mind is brilliantly rendered by Alison Anderson's perceptive translation.
9
She's incredibly honest and perceptive about the art scene in New York.
10
Zelandoni smiled and said almost inaudibly, That was perceptive of you, Ayla.
11
In short, a balanced soul was born, perceptive of the two elements.
12
I'm sure that it was rather perceptive and incisive, whatever it was.
13
In a way physical objects have more insistent perceptive power than sense-objects.
14
There were times when Delores was much too perceptive to suit her.
15
She was broad and burly, isolated and insulated but worldly and perceptive.
16
With perceptive craft he scans faces and notes special traits of fellow-passengers.
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Ireland
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
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