Perceptive Synonyms and Antonyms

pər-sĕptĭv
Discerning
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. perspicacious
  2. sharp
  3. sagacious
Having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment
(Adjective)
Antonyms:
  1. unperceptive

Words Related to Perceptive

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

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.

  • 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.

  • Perception or real cognition is thus conceived as a complex fact, involving data of sense and pure perceptive forms, determined by the category and realized through productive imagination in the schema.

  • 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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