Synonyms for perceptive
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
observant, insightful, perspicacious, incisive, sensitive, keen, poignant formal, discerning, penetrating, quick, acute, discriminating, sentient, percipient, apperceptive, incessive, astute, shrewd, sagacious formal, piercing, knifelike, apprehensive dated
Definitions
- adj. 1
Having or showing keenness or sharpness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition.
He is so perceptive when it comes to other people's feelings.
Example sentences
- insightful The article was well researched and insightful.
- observant I'm an observant Muslim and I don't drink alcohol.
- incisive Your incisive criticism will deflate a lot of egos.
- perspicacious Jane, your perspicacious child just figured out my Internet password.
- sensitive Slavery is still a sensitive subject around here.
- acute The patient is suffering from acute cardiac pain.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| perceptive | falling | |
| insightful | rising | |
| observant | rising | |
| incisive | steady | |
| perspicacious | steady | |
| sensitive | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- keen1
- 5 letters
- quick1, acute2
- 6 letters
- astute2, shrewd1
- 8 letters
- piercing2, poignant2, sentient, incisive3
- 9 letters
- sensitive3, observant3, sagacious, incessive, knifelike2
- 10 letters
- insightful3, discerning3, percipient4
- 11 letters
- penetrating4
- 12 letters
- apprehensive4, apperceptive
- 13 letters
- perspicacious4
- 14 letters
- discriminating5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (acute2 = 2 syllables).