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perceptive
01
(of a person) able to quickly and accurately understand or notice things due to keen awareness and insight
Grammatical Information
Composition
Compound
qualitative
Superlative
most perceptive
Comparative
more perceptive
gradable
Examples
She is very perceptive and notices details others overlook.
02
related to the process of understanding through the senses
Examples
The brain 's perceptive mechanisms are complex, translating electrical signals into images and sounds.
Lexical Tree
perceptively
perceptiveness
unperceptive
perceptive
percept
