Overview of verb discern

The verb discern has 1 sense

• spot, 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")

Overview of adj discerning

The adj discerning has 4 senses

• discerning -- (having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; "a discerning critic"; "a discerning reader")


• discerning, discreet -- (unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; "a discerning editor"; "a discreet silence")


• apprehensive, discerning -- (quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne)


• discerning -- (able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive; "discerning taste"; "a discerning eye for color")