discerning

  • (a) having or revealing keen insight and good judgment
    • a discerning critic
    • a discerning reader
  • (s) unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic
    • a discerning editor
    • a discreet silence
    discreet,
  • (s) quick to understand
    • "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
    apprehensive,
  • (s) able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive
    • discerning taste
    • a discerning eye for color

Synonyms

discreet apprehensive

Antonyms

undiscerning

See also

critical discriminating

Words of close approximity