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Definition of discerning

"discerning" in the verb sense

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

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"

"discerning" in the adjective sense

1. discerning

having or revealing keen insight and good judgment

"a discerning critic"

"a discerning reader"

2. discerning, discreet

unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic

"a discerning editor"

"a discreet silence"

3. apprehensive, discerning

quick to understand

"a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne

4. discerning

able to make or detect effects of great subtlety sensitive

"discerning taste"

"a discerning eye for color"

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Quotations for discerning

Some women are so just and discerning that they never see an opportunity to be generous.

It is the wise alone who are capable of discerning that impartial justice is the truest mercy. [ Goldsmith ]

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done. [ Swift ]

Wisdom consists not in seeing what is directly before us, but in discerning those things which may come to pass. [ Terence ]

Never to speak by superlatives is a sign of a wise man; for that way of speaking wounds either truth or prudence. Exaggerations are so many prostitutions of reputation; because they discover the weakness of understanding, and the bad discerning of him that speaks. [ J. Earle ]

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet has it many points in common therewith ... I call it rather a discerning of the Infinite in the Finite, of the Idea made Real; which discerning again may be either true or false, either seraphic or demonic, Inspiration or Insanity. [ Carlyle ]

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discerning in Scrabble®

The word discerning is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters discerning:

DISCERNING

(153)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (22 words)

cinders, cringed, cringes, deicing, dingier, dingies, dinners, discern, endings, grinned, incised, indices, insider, irenics, reicing, reining, rending, rescind, ridings, rinsing, sending, sericin

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discerning in Words With Friends™

The word discerning is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 18

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters discerning:

DISCERNING

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Seven Letter Word Alert: (22 words)

cinders, cringed, cringes, deicing, dingier, dingies, dinners, discern, endings, grinned, incised, indices, insider, irenics, reicing, reining, rending, rescind, ridings, rinsing, sending, sericin

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Words within the letters of discerning

2 letter words in discerning (5 words)

en id in is re

3 letter words in discerning (21 words)

cis den die dig din end ens erg gin ice ide ids inn ins ire red rid rig sic sin sir

4 letter words in discerning (46 words)

cedi dens dice dies digs dine ding dins dire disc dreg ends ergs gins gird girn grid grin iced icer ices ides inns ired ires irid iris nerd nice nine reds rein rend rice ride rids rigs rind ring rise send side sign sine sing sire

5 letter words in discerning (47 words)

6 letter words in discerning (44 words)

7 letter words in discerning (22 words)

cinders cringed cringes deicing dingier dingies dinners discern endings grinned incised indices insider irenics reicing reining rending rescind ridings rinsing sending sericin

8 letter words in discerning (3 words)

desiring residing ringside

10 letter words in discerning (1 word)

discerning

discerning + 1 blank (1 word)

considering

discerning + 2 blanks (2 words)

discerningly undiscerning

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Words containing the sequence discerning

Words that start with discerning (2 words)

discerning discerningly

Words with discerning in them (3 words)

discerning undiscerningly undiscerningness

Words that end with discerning (2 words)

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Word Growth involving discerning

Shorter words in discerning

is disc discern

Longer words containing discerning

discerningly undiscerningly

undiscerning undiscerningly

undiscerning undiscerningness