percipient

adjective

Definition of percipientnext
as in acute

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Recent Examples of percipient The Bigger Picture Netflix animation execs are passionate about their job and percipient. — John Hopewell, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026 Well-known to followers of the blogosphere and seekers of intelligent, percipient commentary on public policy, Kevin Drum passed away Friday after a long battle with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow. — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for percipient
  1. acute
  2. perceptive
  3. penetrating
  4. discerning
  5. sagacious
  6. experienced
  7. insightful
  8. perspicacious
Adjective
  • The cause was determined to be a lack of oxygen to the brain due to severe asthma with acute lung injury while fighting cold-like symptoms.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Other medications are used to treat acute relapses or manage symptoms such as fatigue, walking difficulties, spasticity and bladder problems.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of acute
Adjective
  • Though Fielder doesn’t pretend to be a journalist, or a science expert, his questions are direct and perceptive.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The world is too noisy; therefore, people are less perceptive.
    — Josh Zajdman, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of perceptive
Adjective
  • There are two types of TBIs, penetrating and non-penetrating.
    — Connie Etermadi, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
  • One spring day in Paris many years ago, my wife, Diana, a most penetrating photographer, capable of seeing like no one else, decided, as an experiment, to walk across the city blindfolded.
    — Hisham Matar, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
Definition of penetrating
Adjective
  • As shoppers become more discerning, retailers are becoming more selective about what earns shelf space.
    — Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 21 July 2026
  • For the most discerning mixologist, only pure, flavorless, slow-melting ice will do.
    — Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Definition of discerning
Adjective
  • The simplification of this rallying cry points to the exhibition’s sagacious curatorial focus.
    — Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Harper’s has been a sagacious and elegant presence in all this for a very long time, since there were giants on the earth, Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Nov. 2025
Definition of sagacious
Adjective
  • But can a single supplier, no matter how competent and experienced, possibly be relied upon to deliver such a critical part of both forces’ future warfighting capacity?
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Abarno is a three-year starter who has passed for over 1,500 yards already this season and has a good connection with many of his experienced group of receivers.
    — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of experienced
Adjective
  • The end of Sunday’s Last Week Tonight featured a characteristically stupid, yet insightful segment about effective ways to push back against corny and annoying corporate branding.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2026
  • There are other things about this book that are insightful and poignant about the nature of being a human.
    — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of insightful
Adjective
  • This is a wickedly precise rendering of a young, self-destructive heroine worshiping at the altar of a false idol—and narrated in hindsight, from her later, more perspicacious vantage.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
  • Instead, this trickster figure proffers the idea that Shakespeare was too perspicacious to be just some white guy.
    — Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2026
Definition of perspicacious

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“Percipient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/percipient. Accessed 21 Oct. 2026.

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