perceptive English

Meaning perceptive meaning

What does perceptive mean?

perceptive

— adjective of or relating to perception perceptive faculties

— adjective having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment a perceptive eye a perceptive observation

Synonyms perceptive synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as perceptive?

perceptive English » English

perspicacious

discerning

quick-witted

observant

perceptual

insightful

clever

acute

smart

sentient

sensitive

piercing

percipient

perceptional

intelligent

discriminating

witty

watchful

understanding

trenchant

tart

tactful

strident

stiff

statesmanlike

spiky

slick

shrill

shrewd

sharp-sighted

sharp

sensible

sensational

salty

sagacious

receptive

ready

quick on the uptake

pungent

prescient

prehensile

pointed

peaky

peaked

mordant

mordacious

longsighted

keen-sighted

keen-eyed

keen

Topics perceptive topics

What do people use perceptive to talk about?

Person

Sense, perceive

• What words describe someone who can sense things better than other people?
  sensitive perceptive acute sense

Language and thought Soul, spirit Mental state

Notice

• What words describe someone who is good at noticing things?
  observant perceptive eagle-eyed have eyes like a hawk have eyes in the back of your head powers of observation

Language and thought Think Mind

Intelligent

• What words describe someone who thinks well?
  intelligent brainy bright brilliant capable clever crafty discerning educated ingenious insightful keen knowledgeable learned literate perceptive philosophical profound rational scholarly sharp shrewd sly smart sophisticated sound wily have a lot of sense have a high IQ

Examples perceptive examples

How do I use perceptive in a sentence?

Simple sentences

A really perceptive person can figure out a whole situation with just a few clues. That's the kind of person I want you to become.

Tom is a very perceptive man.

Tom is very perceptive.

How perceptive!

You're very perceptive.

Movie subtitles

Very perceptive of you.

It's brilliant, contemporary, perceptive.

But you're such a perceptive man, Dr. Wieck.

Mr. Rresident, I'm sorry if the senator was not perceptive enough to grasp the obvious.

What was exactly this man? Terribly perceptive about human psychology, cold, cynical, impressed by nothing, nobody.

How refreshing to find royalty possessed of such a perceptive wit.

No, thank you. I thought your analysis was very perceptive.

Secret services, of the interested powers sent their most perceptive and dynamic agents, all of them fascinating synthesis of brains and muscle, to find him.

You are a perceptive woman.

How perceptive of them.

Perceptive of you.

You yourself told Theophanes I was perceptive.

Perceptive is he?

I'm very sensitive and perceptive.

My, my. Every ounce as perceptive as I thought you were. Congratulations.

I'm very perceptive.

The queen is less perceptive.

Kind-heartedly, perceptive, selflessly, lovingly, maternal.

You're very perceptive.

You're very perceptive, Ugo.

I thought your analysis was very perceptive.

Perceptive little fellow, isn't he?

How very perceptive of you.

You are perceptive.

How perceptive you are!

Terribly perceptive about human psychology, cold, cynical, impressed by nothing, nobody.

You're so perceptive.

Well, it's quite obvious to the perceptive eye, sir.

How perceptive of you to notice that I needed one.

Obviously, tribbles are very perceptive creatures, captain.

Perceptive senses such as taste, touch, smell, and, of course, emotions.

That's very perceptive, Mr. Sulu.

News and current affairs

Marx was certainly a perceptive analyst of the nineteenth century's version of globalization.