Synonyms for discerning

Verb

1. recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart

usage: detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"

Adjective

1. discerning (vs. undiscerning), clear, percipient, clear-eyed, clear-sighted, perspicacious, prescient, critical, discriminating

usage: having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; "a discerning critic"; "a discerning reader"

2. discerning, discreet, tactful (vs. tactless)

usage: unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; "a discerning editor"; "a discreet silence"

3. apprehensive, discerning, perceptive (vs. unperceptive)

usage: quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne

4. discerning, discriminating (vs. undiscriminating)

usage: able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive; "discerning taste"; "a discerning eye for color"