perceptive
/pəˈsɛptɪv
/adjective
Having or showing sensitive insight: an extraordinarily perceptive account of their relationship...
- You are perceptive and sensitive so listen to your intuition or gut feelings.
- I felt he was a sensitive, poetic, perceptive and natural person.
- The answer was not the result of any particularly perceptive insight; nor was I alone in giving it.
Synonyms
insightful, discerning, responsive, sensitive, observant;
piercing, penetrating, percipient, perspicacious, penetrative, intelligent, clever, canny, keen, sharp, sharp-witted, quick-witted, astute, shrewd, subtle, quick, ready, clear, acute, discriminating;
intuitive, thoughtful, deep, profound
Derivatives
perceptively
/ adverb ...- I hadn't taught Mark but the teachers who did said he was good-humoured, mild-mannered, a clever lad who answered perceptively but didn't want to draw attention to himself.
- He therefore cleverly and perceptively shows through this creative example how an ‘enlightened false consciousness’ might arise from excessive introspection.
- As she perceptively notes, this vision of a global system represents a new phase of capitalism which is ‘more universal, more unchallenged, more pure and more unadulterated than ever before’.
perceptiveness
/ noun ...- She is known for her intelligence, dry sense of humour, practicality and perceptiveness, almost as much as for her immense wealth.
- Observe everything with extraordinary perceptiveness and insight.
- His intuitive culinary perceptiveness and sophisticated approach to food culminate in his presentation of world-class cuisine served in the heart of New York City.
perceptivity
- Eloquence and perceptivity did not make Churchill prime minister of Great Britain; it was the fall of France that did so.
- My thanks to him for his perceptivity.
- Instead, as he shows with great perceptivity, it is the really motivated electorate that is taking to Web technologies with a vengeance.