percipient

adjective

Definition of percipientnext
as in acute

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Recent Examples of percipient Well-known to followers of the blogosphere and seekers of intelligent, percipient commentary on public policy, Kevin Drum passed away Friday after a long battle with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow. — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for percipient
  1. acute
  2. perceptive
  3. penetrating
  4. discerning
  5. sagacious
  6. experienced
  7. insightful
  8. perspicacious
Adjective
  • In some parts of Africa, the obstacles to foreign investment are more acute.
    — Jared Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2026
  • For instance, a patient might be admitted for diverticulitis (primary diagnosis), but found on post-op labs to have acute blood-loss anemia (secondary diagnosis).
    — Leah Pierson, STAT, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of acute
Adjective
  • The world is too noisy; therefore, people are less perceptive.
    — Josh Zajdman, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2026
  • With time, users may begin to experience AI not simply as a tool but as a uniquely perceptive source of guidance.
    — Morgan Shipley, The Conversation, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of perceptive
Adjective
  • There are two types of TBIs, penetrating and non-penetrating.
    — Connie Etermadi, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
  • One spring day in Paris many years ago, my wife, Diana, a most penetrating photographer, capable of seeing like no one else, decided, as an experiment, to walk across the city blindfolded.
    — Hisham Matar, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
Definition of penetrating
Adjective
  • As shoppers become more discerning, retailers are becoming more selective about what earns shelf space.
    — Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 21 July 2026
  • For the most discerning mixologist, only pure, flavorless, slow-melting ice will do.
    — Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Definition of discerning
Adjective
  • The simplification of this rallying cry points to the exhibition’s sagacious curatorial focus.
    — Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Harper’s has been a sagacious and elegant presence in all this for a very long time, since there were giants on the earth, Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Nov. 2025
Definition of sagacious
Adjective
  • The column also presents the military leadership cuts as a reason for concern about the resilience of democratic institutions, especially if experienced leaders are removed while the administration concentrates power.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
  • At least one experienced appraiser told The Associated Press that a diamond of such size and quality could be worth a fourth of that — still an impressive find.
    — LAURA TURBAY, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of experienced
Adjective
  • This breezy and insightful book, which takes the movie icon from the slums of New York to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, triumphant on Oscar night, is a sobering reminder of just how far Stallone had to go to make it.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Thank you to Ethan Tobman for your insightful production design, and bringing that feeling to life.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of insightful
Adjective
  • This is a wickedly precise rendering of a young, self-destructive heroine worshiping at the altar of a false idol—and narrated in hindsight, from her later, more perspicacious vantage.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
  • Instead, this trickster figure proffers the idea that Shakespeare was too perspicacious to be just some white guy.
    — Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2026
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“Percipient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/percipient. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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