Usage of "perceptive"

Portuguese

perspicaz

Catalan

perceptiu

Having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment.

unperceptive

Related terms

perspicaz

Having or revealing keen insight and good judgment.

Antonyms

Examples for "unperceptive"

unperceptive

Examples for "unperceptive"

You are unperceptive, hardly more sentient than stones. 
 The Wyrmling Horde 

Abel was so unperceptive that he touched pathos. 
 Gone to Earth 

And after that Jurgen and Chloris lived very pleasantly together, though Jurgen began to find his Hamadryad a trifle unperceptive, if not actually obtuse. 
 Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice 

"No one could accuse you of being unperceptive!" 
 The Sword of Shannara 

Perceptive.

Related terms

sensory activity

Usage of perceptive in English

It needed to be a good question: something smart, perceptive, and classy. 
 How to make love like a porn star 

His work is deeply perceptive, often outrageously funny and always compulsively readable. 
 The Guardian 

For hours Roy talked while Eve interjected numerous questions and perceptive comments. 
 Dark rivers of the heart 

I think people might need a break from me. Talented and perceptive. 
 News.com.au 

It was a perceptive way to treat him, the Ninth's Zelandoni said. 
 The Shelters of Stone 

Dos Passos's letters and diaries are perceptive in a democratic American vein. 
 The white war: life and death on the italian front 1915-1919 

She did the impossible; her critique was both acutely perceptive and gentle. 
 The Clan of the Cave Bear 

Her state of mind is brilliantly rendered by Alison Anderson's perceptive translation. 
 The Irish Times 

She's incredibly honest and perceptive about the art scene in New York. 
 Toxic bachelors 

Zelandoni smiled and said almost inaudibly, That was perceptive of you, Ayla. 
 The Land of Painted Caves 

In short, a balanced soul was born, perceptive of the two elements. 
 Representative Men: Seven Lectures 

I'm sure that it was rather perceptive and incisive, whatever it was. 
 A Confederacy of Dunces 

In a way physical objects have more insistent perceptive power than sense-objects. 
 The Concept of Nature / The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity... 

There were times when Delores was much too perceptive to suit her. 
 Chocolate chip cookie murder 

She was broad and burly, isolated and insulated but worldly and perceptive. 
 Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America 

With perceptive craft he scans faces and notes special traits of fellow-passengers. 
 Oswald Langdon / or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1... 