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单词 discerning
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Definition of discerning in English:

discerning

adjective dɪˈsəːnɪŋdəˈsərnɪŋ
  • Having or showing good judgement.

    the brasserie attracts discerning customers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • However, since then an increasingly competitive market and more discerning customers have forced the company to innovate in order to maintain and strengthen its market share.
    • From her vast experience both as an actor and a producer Anne is acutely aware that discerning audiences expect a top class show.
    • I think the reception that the performance received from what must be described as a discerning audience, would support my judgement of the evening's music.
    • Customers are more discerning than they were in the past.
    • Free of the constraints of the nine-to-five job, without young families to tie them down and with their mortgages paid off, they are an increasingly discerning and sophisticated group.
    • ‘A new range of casual cane chairs has arrived for the discerning customer,’ says Miriam.
    • If a cook does not get a discerning customer, all his efforts and culinary skills would be wasted.
    • Edicts delivered from on high do not go down well with today's discerning and sophisticated public.
    • For the past 18 years, the company has established itself as the eminent choice of discerning customers in the moulding industry.
    • Physicians are by inclination and training discerning men, wise in human relations and keen in judgement.
    • So when notoriously purist and discerning jazz critics single out a rising star to heap hyperbolic praise upon, gig after gig, it really is time to sit up and take notice.
    • This would have helped the discerning clinician in selecting a specific method rather than relying exclusively on the eclectic methods of treatment suggested for each case by the authors.
    • ‘We have a very good customer base now, but it's also a very discerning customer base,’ he says.
    • When any group reappears after a long period away the discerning listener is wise to approach the results with caution.
    • The independent film holds the hopes of the discerning critic, weary of mainstream bombast, in its hands.
    • More importantly, it will also provide a platform to revive age-old weaves with a contemporary and fashionable look for the discerning Indian customer.
    • Over the past decade shoppers have become much more discerning and aware of the products they buy.
    • Today's diamond buyer, it seems, is a more discerning and brand-conscious customer, no longer satisfied with just any old generic rock.
    • Of course to say that such schemes don't also attract the smart, intelligent, well-educated and discerning net users would be untrue.
    • Some might condemn my reaction as politically motivated rather than a discerning literary judgement.
    Synonyms
    discriminating, selective, judicious, tasteful, refined, cultivated, cultured, sophisticated, enlightened, sensitive, subtle, critical
    perceptive, insightful, percipient, perspicacious, penetrating
    astute, shrewd, ingenious, clever, intelligent, sharp, wise, erudite, aware, knowing, sagacious
    rare sapient

Derivatives

  • discerningly

  • adverb
    • Times past were recalled and many memories relived as the attendance cast their eyes discerningly and inquisitively over the wide and comprehensive historical school photographic record on display in the corridors and classrooms.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The knight glared at Arthur discerningly through narrowed eyes.
      • So every single element is discerningly chosen and carefully-treated.
      • The festival will link literacy and literature, and encourage people to read more widely and discerningly.
      • But at the same time, our hero-worship of fiction allows us to gloss over, or even embrace, certain issues we would do best to scrutinise a little more discerningly.

Rhymes

Herning, turning, yearning
 
 

Definition of discerning in US English:

discerning

adjectivedəˈsərniNGdəˈsərnɪŋ
  • Having or showing good judgment.

    the restaurant attracts discerning customers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The independent film holds the hopes of the discerning critic, weary of mainstream bombast, in its hands.
    • Today's diamond buyer, it seems, is a more discerning and brand-conscious customer, no longer satisfied with just any old generic rock.
    • More importantly, it will also provide a platform to revive age-old weaves with a contemporary and fashionable look for the discerning Indian customer.
    • However, since then an increasingly competitive market and more discerning customers have forced the company to innovate in order to maintain and strengthen its market share.
    • For the past 18 years, the company has established itself as the eminent choice of discerning customers in the moulding industry.
    • If a cook does not get a discerning customer, all his efforts and culinary skills would be wasted.
    • From her vast experience both as an actor and a producer Anne is acutely aware that discerning audiences expect a top class show.
    • Edicts delivered from on high do not go down well with today's discerning and sophisticated public.
    • Some might condemn my reaction as politically motivated rather than a discerning literary judgement.
    • I think the reception that the performance received from what must be described as a discerning audience, would support my judgement of the evening's music.
    • This would have helped the discerning clinician in selecting a specific method rather than relying exclusively on the eclectic methods of treatment suggested for each case by the authors.
    • So when notoriously purist and discerning jazz critics single out a rising star to heap hyperbolic praise upon, gig after gig, it really is time to sit up and take notice.
    • Over the past decade shoppers have become much more discerning and aware of the products they buy.
    • Free of the constraints of the nine-to-five job, without young families to tie them down and with their mortgages paid off, they are an increasingly discerning and sophisticated group.
    • ‘A new range of casual cane chairs has arrived for the discerning customer,’ says Miriam.
    • Customers are more discerning than they were in the past.
    • Of course to say that such schemes don't also attract the smart, intelligent, well-educated and discerning net users would be untrue.
    • Physicians are by inclination and training discerning men, wise in human relations and keen in judgement.
    • When any group reappears after a long period away the discerning listener is wise to approach the results with caution.
    • ‘We have a very good customer base now, but it's also a very discerning customer base,’ he says.
    Synonyms
    discriminating, selective, judicious, tasteful, refined, cultivated, cultured, sophisticated, enlightened, sensitive, subtle, critical
 
 
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