perceptive
playSimple Definition of perceptive
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: having or showing an ability to understand or notice something easily or quickly
Full Definition of perceptive
1 : responsive to sensory stimuli : discerning <a perceptive eye>
2 a : capable of or exhibiting keen perception : observant <a perceptive scholar> b : characterized by sympathetic understanding or insight
perceptively
adverbperceptiveness
nounExamples of perceptive in a sentence
He is a very perceptive young man.
<due to their ability to rotate their ears, cats are very perceptive when it comes to pinpointing the source of a sound>
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