DECERNING Synonyms

• having or revealing keen insight and good judgment

• unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic

• quick to understand

• able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive

• showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

• exhibiting insight or clear and deep perception

• having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree

• possessing sound knowledge

• exercising or showing good judgment

• endowed with the capacity to reason

• marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters

• a funeral lament sung with loud wailing

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

• intense or sharp

• excellent

• painful as if caused by a sharp instrument

• having a sharp cutting edge or point

• express grief verbally

• paying close attention especially to details

• quick to notice; showing quick and keen perception

• (of individuals) adhering strictly to laws and rules and customs

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

• tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing

• of or relating to perception

• having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment

• careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment

• mentally nimble and resourceful

• acutely insightful and wise

• skillful in statecraft or management

• keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point

• having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing

• (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone

• a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named

• a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point

• changing suddenly in direction and degree

• (of something seen or heard) clearly defined

• ending in a sharp point

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

• marked by practical hardheaded intelligence

• harsh

• having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones

• dangerously steep

• very sudden and in great amount or degree

• quick and forceful

• marked by practical hardheaded intelligence

• acting with a specific goal

• having or prompted by wisdom or discernment

• a way of doing or being

• United States Jewish leader (born in Hungary) (1874-1949)

• United States religious leader (born in Bohemia) who united reform Jewish organizations in the United States (1819-1900)

• marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters

• evidencing the possession of inside information

• improperly forward or bold