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  1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Discern
  2. a. Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted.
  3. adj. having or revealing keen insight and good judgment
  4. adj. unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic
  5. adj. quick to understand
  6. adj. able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive
  7. Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted. Macaulay.
  8. j:100 a. having or revealing keen insight and good judgment s. unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic s. able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive