Perceptive meaning

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Able to perceive quickly and easily; having keen insight or intuition; penetrating.
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Of or relating to perception.

Perceptive faculties.

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Of or capable of perception.
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Of or relating to perception.

Perceptive faculties.

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Having or showing keenness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition.

He is so perceptive when it comes to other people's feelings.

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The definition of perceptive is someone who is intuitive, who understands people or situations and who shows sensitivity.

An example of someone who would be described as perceptive is someone who can read other people's moods.

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Perceptive Sentence Examples

  • It was amazing how someone could be so perceptive at one moment and clueless the next.

  • Those in the military are often rewarded for evasive and perceptive actions that they take.

  • You're very perceptive, Effie.

  • It seems that opinions may be formed of inquiry and study alone, which are then constructive; but where intuitive perception or the perceptive imagination is a robust possession, the fruits of research become assimilative - the food of a divining faculty which needs more or less of it according to the power of divination.

  • Such principles are not derived from sensation, but are "suggested" on occasion of sensation, in such a way as to constitute the necessary conditions of our having perceptive experience at all.

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